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pgrous pgrous
 
January 07, 2009 09:10 PM

How was MacRumors hacked during yesterday's MacWorld keynote? Details please?

The MacrumorsLive web site was live blogging the MacWorld keynote and was hacked. How was it hacked into?
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epascarell... epascarell...
 
 January 07, 2009 09:40 PM
People basically sniffed the URL and found a non password protected page that let them add the posts to the live feed page.

See the comments here for screenshots of the page: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/when-livestreams-go-wrong/
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http://twitter.com/epascarello/status/1101189609
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/when-livestreams-go-wrong/



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rslakinski rslakinski
 
January 07, 2009 09:20 PM
Not sure, probably via IRC since thats where the updates actually come from if I recall correctly. I was watching macrumors and saw a line go by in all caps stating that Steve Jobs was dead, and shortly after that the site went down.

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joshuaduff... joshuaduff...
 
January 07, 2009 09:40 PM
I would guess through some nasty IRC hacking and cracking, but that's just my professional opinion.
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