RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
Written by Ernesto on January 20, 2008Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site.
It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.
The comments on Reddit are only speculation so far. Based on the username, which was apparently “webReadOnly”, it might not have been setup correctly, or someone could have found another way to delete the content form the site.
Another possibility is that the website has some sort of database flood protection that disables new connections, or perhaps the RIAA themselves removed the content temporarily. The latter seems unlikely, as a better solution would be to take it entirely offline to fix the bigger problem. While they could fix a small vulnerability like this in a matter of seconds, the chances are it’s not an isolated problem.
As pointed out by Haywire, playing around with the urls a bit can return some funny results. It is pretty easy to make the RIAA link to The Pirate Bay for example.
For now it sure does look like all the content has been wiped from the RIAA homepage. Let’s hope they have backups, or not.
Update: After a few hours the RIAA restored the site. They seem to have fixed the vulnerability, but we have saved some screenshots.
Update: They didn’t fix it all, this still works.
RIAA website without content
RIAA supporting The Pirate Bay
Error?
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LOL THATS SOO FUNNY!
Sorry to disappoint, Elliott 99. Maybe one day you’ll be first? First in line at the jerk store!
LOL - let me guess you’re 10? right?
0wn3d
BWAHAHAHAHAHAetc.
Ad nauseam…
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!
The news room page shows a link to “Pirate Bay - Free music and movies”. Roar!
yarrrr!!! who loves ya baby? NO-ONE!!! datz y ewe gotz pwn3d. TPBFTW!!!
Haha ! OWNED ?
they deserved it!
all go on this link!!
http://tinyurl.com/26cmub
it makes a very slow query on riaa website!!
I PAY FOR NOTHING!!!
AAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
I can still access the info on the site when I go through the “TPB link at RIAA” posted in this article, and then press one of riaas tabs, I can see it all, then when I press some tab a second time i get to the “temp removed”.
I think this seems strange.
Ohh! and TPB FTW! :P
They still haven’t got it back and working yet? You would think they would get someone on this right away. Maybe they haven’t noticed yet?
WOOHOO!!! DOWN WITH THE RIAA!!!
ROLF hahahahaha
BLOW ME, I’m from romania, please come cut my internet cable ! CUNTS !
lol thats so choice
http://tinyurl.com/2vrzkh (Yeah i know, you don’t trust tinyURL, but the link was frigging huge, it’s real, if not digg me down into oblivion)
Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.
hahaha, good for them. i love it when this kind of s**t happens. hahahah!!!
god bless america! and the hackers
lol
Their site is now offline!
20# that meant to be scary?
Oh, this is good!
MattyD, its sunday, they’re 9-5 people, got owned badly ;-)
[quote comment="268104"]Sorry to disappoint, Elliott 99. Maybe one day you’ll be first? First in line at the jerk store![/quote]
Omg, that was soooo mature! I wanna be like you man!
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