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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FUCK RIAA period
2012 just google it youll see, i believe something will happen but like i said earlier we dont know what will happen but something…. maybe it will rain? maybe a comet will hit? maybe the big mac will go onto the dollar menu?? ok thats pushing it..
haahhaahahhaha
Yeah we need to get more pirates active in defening our rights.
Bring down any anti-p2p website.
Mediasentry.com should be next :)
And even after several hours they have not done anything yet to sort it out - but the again, THEY do it for money and today, after all, IS Sunday. How can somebody be so ignorant not to keep a constant eye on the net (and exp. on your own site!) in such a “business”? That proves, once more, that they are not only mean and money-mad but also very stupid…
your ALL just a bunch of thieving little bastards!
Why is stealing music ok?
then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?
who is teaching the future generations here?
sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.
Lol @ #56. I keep the list on the web of the shit I wanna get. Check it out, whoever.
http://moviestoget.blogspot.com
Maybe we are…but at least we can spell! Actually, we’re not, but then I promised my mom that I woulldn’t feed the trolls :)
“sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.”
You are wrong. Most people here respect artists very much. But we hate to be ripped of by the industry. We want to give money to you guys making the music and not paying the bills of a big bloated industry thats not even necessary anymore.
There are many ways of supporting an artist: Buying a CD, getting merchandise, visiting your concerts. I am extremly sure many people who download your music will do one of these things if they liked it!
thats fuckin awesome
[quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?
who is teaching the future generations here?
sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]
Boo hoo. Hoo.
Ha Ha :o)
Now it’s back up again.
LMAO, haha fuck u RIAA :D
@P
start making concert and distribute your music under CC licence…
(that’s how the good band/musician should survive to my opinion)
Quote ” Why is stealing music ok?
then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?
who is teaching the future generations here?
sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.”
Man… If you are in the music industry you realize that you make next to nothing off of cd sales. Quit your bit*hin and hit the road on tour. Death To RIAA…
Before every one gets excited; while the RIAA are a bunch of retards I’m sure that their website employees are smart enough to have back-ups.
[quote comment="268326"]Why is stealing music ok?
then its ok to go grab your paycheck from your mailbox right?
who is teaching the future generations here?
sorry to say, i make a living doing music and im embarrassed at the way people treat artists…… you all should think about it….. and you would if it happens to you.[/quote]
Wow, I’m in music too - I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you right now ;p
I saw their website in the better state at about 20:00, but unfortunatelt, by 20:50, they have restored at least the front few pages back to their originals.
It could not have happened to a more deserving organisation :-))
Hey buddy, I’m a musician and a painter and think there is nothing better than the network of people that has sprung from nothing to share all this information. I play in a reggae/ska band and thanks to the likes of things like bittorrent we played a tour in Japan a few months ago. Why? because a bunch of music LOVERS from Japan started downloading our tracks, and we gained a following. I applaud anyone who uses these systems as it is taking the money away from the labels and other suits, and giving the power to the artists. Musicians are making more than ever on tour now, and the tide is changing to where people stop buying their music at Best Buy where the money gets funneled to the suits, to where musicians are uploading directly to Itunes and other media to get paid directly. I’d rather get the attention that I earned instead of some money whoring label.
Props to you nr. 71 !
You are the one who understand it.
Concerning almost everyone who just posted in these comments,
Shut up.
Seriously..just shut up. You are all annoying with your improper spelling and immature behaviour..pff. Of course then again I just type like this to imtimidate pre-pubescent teenagers who think myspace and facebook are coolzorb.
Seriously though..shut up.
excelente!
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