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Amigaworld.net News   Amigaworld.net News : AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
   posted by zerohero on 11-Jan-2012 1:15:49 (14219 reads)
Dear users,

We are sorry to admit it but it seems AmigaWorld.Net was hacked today. Most likely it wasn't our server the hacker got the passwords from, but we have no idea of knowing so far. We suggest everyone changes their password as quickly as possible.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Regards,
AmigaWorld.Net staff
    

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DBAlex 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 20:31:31
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It is obvious by now that the admins here don't know what they're doing.

- The h4xor


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Hondo 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 20:41:49
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Did anyone question Mr. Dickinson at all ??

Perhaps the lack of news from A-Eon lead him to hack his own account, so his company could enter the headlines again!




Sorry Trevor couldn't help it


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TrevorDick 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 21:02:23
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Quote:
Perhaps the lack of news from A-Eon lead him to hack his own account, so his company could enter the headlines again!

Using the theory any publicity, even bad, is good?

Erm! ..................................................No

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cha05e90 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 21:31:05
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@mods

The hacker seems to be still active?!?

Here (see post: http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6202&start=40#83606) and at amigans.net (see: http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5128&forum=30) ...

May DBAlex account is leaked as well...

Last edited by cha05e90 on 11-Jan-2012 at 09:32 PM.


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Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 21:56:00
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@TrevorDick

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Using the theory any publicity, even bad, is good?


All PR is good PR they say....


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tomazkid 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 21:59:18
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@cha05e90

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The hacker seems to be still active?!?


Yes, seems so.

We could reset passwords, but a lot of the member emails they used whenthey registed are outdated these days.


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eliyahu 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 22:09:34
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@The h4xor

you're pathetic. i realize calling people 'names' is against the TOS of this site, and certainly not in keeping with civilized manners in any case, but i hope the moderators will grant me some slack this one time.

seriously, what kind of deranged human being thinks grabbing passwords is either impressive or useful?!

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So, does anyone have screengrabs of the fake postings? I'm just curious.


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amigasociety 
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Posted on 11-Jan-2012 23:08:18
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@ Xeron

I believe the fraud posts should not be posted again since it was false info. No reason to drum it up again and it get posted elsewhere out of context.

Let the owners of this and other sites affected only keep it if they need it to track down who hacked Trevor's account.

But leave trash where it belongs, in the sewer.

tj

Last edited by MacSociety on 11-Jan-2012 at 11:08 PM.

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Karlos 
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@Yssing

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That is why passwords should always be saved as MD5


Not without a hefty dose of random salt first they shouldn't. Unsalted md5 hashes are weak enough to be found by google search.

Also, a nice, slow, hash algorithm is much better for frustrating brute force determination.


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asymetrix 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 11-Jan-2012 23:25:38
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update to OpenID.

http://openid.net/get-an-openid/


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@xeron

http://i.imgur.com/MB0iI.png


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Zontrox 
Re: AmigaWorld.Net hacked!
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 2:38:16
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Since a few days ago, i was trying to login into the site. I forgot the password and asked for a new one. It came but i still couldn't log in. Tried again... no chance. And again... still no chance. Left it alone for one or two days then i came back trying (tonight) and i still couldn't log in. Then i read this and i thought my account/pass was one of the unfortunate ones.

Then i remembered the 'refer' thing in the browser configuration. Went to check if it was activated and... it wasn't. That's why i couldn't log in here. All this time i thought i had it activated and it wasn't. Stupid me.

Well, i changed the password that was sent to me a few minutes ago and let's see if it holds, at least for now.


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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 3:28:15
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My password is:

god


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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 4:18:38
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Akiko

Which other sites? Just now I don't want to go hunting in all the other Amiga sites I have visited, one by one.

ggw


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@ggw

A post on Amigans have said that passwords have potentially been compromised at Amiga.org, AmigaWorld.net and Amigans.net.


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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 13:28:04
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I for one welcome our new hacker overlords


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May I punch you in the face? no? I'll do it anyway if I ever get a chance.

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eliyahu 
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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 16:22:00
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@hotrod

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May I punch you in the face? no? I'll do it anyway if I ever get a chance.

actually i think cheesegrate was just trying to be humorous, specifically alluding the famous simpsons episode in which homer goes into space, tries to clean up the mess left by opening a bag of potato chips, crashes into an ant colony, and the live stream back to earth is misinterpreted by kent brockman as the beginning of horrible insectoid-alien invasion.



and i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords....

@cheesegrate

well done. a spot-on simpsons allusion is something we can all enjoy.

-- eliyahu

Last edited by eliyahu on 12-Jan-2012 at 04:24 PM.


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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 19:35:14
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There is no hacker, AEON is no more.
The story that the AEON quitting is a hoax, is in fact a hoax.

P.S the utterings of this paranoid poster are not neccessarilly that of a sane person.
P.P.S. Who said that?


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