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MacRumors Live Keynote Feed Hacked

By Ed Oswald  |  Posted at 9:42 am on Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Somebody forgot to check their security on their webserver. A group identifying themselves as 4chan.org has hacked MacRumors Live Feed and for all intents and purposes completely taken over their site. I would post a screenshot, however the material being interjected into the feed is pretty R-rated, and now the site has taken down the feed completely. Note to MacRumors: next time make sure hackers can’t use a backdoor to get into your site…

 
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  1. Steven Luscher Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    I managed to capture a full screenshot while the hack was in full swing: http://digg.com/apple/MacRumors_live_Macworld_2009_feed_hacked

  2. Hacked Says:
    January 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    I know! i was wathching as this happened

    http://hackerblog.net/papers/mac-rumors-hacked

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