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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If the riaa wants to stop pracy then tell all the artists to stop selling cds and then we will have nothing to rip.
This is the very definition of being owned.
Just Great ! :D
The riaa deserves it
the record companies give them millions and they sue people for millions and keep all the money for them self
if there so in for keeping the artist from loosing money then why are they so in for charging millions for their crap service and they don’t even give any of their profits to the artist
Check out XSS injection here: http://www.milw0rm.com/papers/173
I know it’s a wall of text but it’s worth the read
http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html
looooooool
way to go. if you can’t beat them. hack them ;)
I think they fixed it!?
Rofl, I changed their logo to TPB logo
http://i26.tinypic.com/20ni4g.jpg
they did it for the lulz
These evil folks here at riaa are serious and this little threat about 2012 is very real. Go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com know what they’re planning for us on 2012!!! fight back!! the infowars!!!! are on!!
These evil folks here at riaa are serious and this little threat about 2012 is very real. Go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com know what they’re planning for us on 2012!!! fight back!! the infowars!!!! are on!!
[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]
I am thinking about the artists. I pay for my music. When possible I buy directly from the artist’s web site and avoid the large labels. I am 100% for making sure my favorite artists get their paychecks. It’s one of the reasons I can’t stand the RIAA. They’ve turned me against buying from major labels which means some artists are no longer getting paid because they are signed with those labels.
This has been said time and time again. The RIAA is not the artist. They are not even the individual label. They are a group that supposedly represents the label’s interests and they are doing a very poor job of it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company so effectively drive an industry’s image into the ground since Sony BMG’s root kit disaster, which, ironically, had to do with DRM.
The RIAA stopped working for the artist and became a tool for beating the consumer right about the time the Patriot Act came into force, so don’t cry ‘protect the artist’ here. This isn’t about the artist. This is about the RIAA trying to protect a dead format and business model by cluttering the legal system and lobbying congress. They are completely out of touch. They’d have you believe that the theft of IP is more important than any other crime facing society. Yes. Right. Absolutely. There’s no hint of insanity there. None at all. Let’s waste all our resources on hunting down people downloading songs because it’s a risk to the nation!!! Yes, it might be costing the companies money, but I don’t see other stores and retailers using congress to lobby for resources to help enforce shoplifting laws. Hmmm.
They’ve yet to realize that they can’t resurrect the cd by suing college students and the disabled.
I might not agree with the some of the more radical opinions on here but I certainly do not agree with anything the RIAA has done since they went on the warpath against anyone who dared to listen to music without allowing a root kit on their pc in the past 5 years.
Dammit, i missed a good laugh :(
[quote]I realize most people don’t want to think about this in more than terms of “wah, I can’t just indiscriminately download music, in violation of current copyright law, without worrying about the RIAA looking over my shoulder”, but if you’re ever hoping your balls will drop and that you’ll be perceived as a man and not just a boy, you need to start thinking about how the rest of the population - that doesn’t do p2p - is going to think about it.[/quote]
So wait, you’re saying that it’s real men who care what others think of them?
[quote]Go ahead and keep stealing music, you inconsiderate idiots. [/quote]
I’m sorry to tell you but it is not possible to steal something by copying it over the internet.
[quote]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.[/quote]
I have to say, just hearing that makes me really happy inside.
Real artists benefiting from sharing… I love it, you guys are the ones that DESERVE to benefit.
A hilarious article, I must say. Congrats to the anonymous few in their successful endeavor.
[quote comment="268480"][quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
so yea supposedly the apocalypse according to the mayans is going to happen that year so r they saying that were all going to die damn riaa u guys are fucked up for wishing that upon us well u guys arent going to last long i bet u guys are going to die out before that lol[/quote]
The Presidential, senate elections are also in late 2012. Who knows? They might bribe themselves into the goverment?
RIAA needs to back the fuck off. Piracy may be hurting the recording industry, but I’d laugh at the face of the RIAA if they were to realize that this piracy is what has sold so many iPods, Zunes, high definition televisions, even broadband internet service.
Just goes to show, you push a group of people… they’re bound to start pushing back…
*tsk tsk*
[quote comment="268397"]@Retard above me (#75)
You just don’t get the idea of filesharing do you? The more we share, the more people will download. And the more people download, the more known artists become. The way the music industry is know, all the cash goes to douchebags in suits and not to the people who actually have the talent. With filesharing, these artists are able to get their music out to the world without paying the salaries of said suited douchebags, and once they are known, then they can begin to make money.
A recording is just a promotional tool. Music lives on stage, not trapped between the layers of a CD.[/quote]
I agree. And consumers will dictate what’s good. Not some fat old walking tummy-tucked face-lift victim hidden in a cloistered ivory tower.
[quote comment="268583"][quote comment="268480"][quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
so yea supposedly the apocalypse according to the mayans is going to happen that year so r they saying that were all going to die damn riaa u guys are fucked up for wishing that upon us well u guys arent going to last long i bet u guys are going to die out before that lol[/quote]
The Presidential, senate elections are also in late 2012. Who knows? They might bribe themselves into the goverment?[/quote]
I think that’s what the wanger’s on about. You are entirely correct, likely.
And they try to shame us into being ‘moral’…. Fuck…
‘meow’ lmaoooo
RIAA has to realize that the days of artists making millions are over!
The RIAA and artists better get used to making less money just like everybody else does.
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