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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No they don’t even care if we die, so why should we care about them at all? When they hound some poor child to death, they then turn to his family to steal their assets, all because he/she may have posted a few rapidshare links. Tell me why file storers are untouched and thriving at the same time? Copyright/royalty enforcement=Internet death, end of cultural exchange, freedom of speech and artistic expression. Media cartels rule the world!? But not, just a pipe dream ..
The RIAA is such a joke. Nothing can stop the bitorrent movement. There will always be a way to get shit for free on the internet.
[quote comment="288222"]go figure
Ur just upset cause u dont know anything about the computer. Do u know how to write code. Or how about bruteforceing.[/quote]
Bruteforceing? ROFL!
Their site got defeated by a SQL injection,… WOW, maybe they should focus a little more on their website
This is a very interesting read. I was also looking for shopping cart software the other day in torrentfreak lol.
hi i need a hacker
who will give me billing cards
yu can mail me at bonka_baby_love@yahoo.com
if yu have a hacker for me to work with
riaa will never work
phuck da RIAA. p2p livez muthaphuck3rz
they ar called Crakers not hackers!!!!!!!
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That’s crazy! Scary!
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