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stage6 site hacked and accounts stolen

  • 11-02-2008 02:03AM
    #1
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this belongs here (so mods feel free to move it if required).

    Stage6 (the videosharing site owned by divx) was down yesterday - it appears to have been hacked and userid/passwords put up on Irc (of users registered between Dec 11 and feb 9th) so if you have an account you might want to change password.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage6

    Hacking

    At approximately 4:00 PM GMT 9 Feb 2008, stage6.com was hacked by eBaum's World. People visiting the frontpage of Stage6 were being redirected to multiple shock sites. This lasted for about two and a half hours before a site maintenance notice was put up by the Stage6 team. The motive and extent of damage are still unclear at this point.

    Service to the site was restored at approximately 11:30 AM GMT 10 Feb 2008.

    A partial list of Email addresses and passwords for several thousand Stage6 users was released by the group shortly after the attack began in the form of a plain text file posted to 4chan's /b/ Random board.[citation needed] The file has since been removed from the site. Users affected were mainly those who had registered a new Stage6 account between December 11, 2007 and February 9, 2008, though the hacker(s) may have accessed the entire Stage6 user database compromising all user logins and might be sharing them over IRC.

    Several threads on eBaum's World and various forums have been deleted regarding the hacking of Stage6. The posts ranged from simple "Why did you do this?" threads to malicious verbal insults against the site.


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