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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Good article on the MD hack.
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/01/14/Media-Defenders-Profile
The title of the article says it all. Yarr!
That officially has made today awesome. Frickin RIAA.
great work! RIAA sux
Hey, off topic here, but has anyone else noticed that Moviex.info is up to its old tricks again, stealing bandwidth from the public trackers for their private one?
Now they’ll go after:
TinyURL
Reddit
Digg
pwn’d like lil kiddies on cod4 tryin to no scope me across the map
pwn3d!
[quote comment="268958"]pwn’d like lil kiddies on cod4 tryin to no scope me across the map[/quote]
omfg dats fukkn pwnish ryt dere
;-)
ha i missed it :(
+10 to whoever did that :)
Comedy Gold.
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AHAHAHAHAHA!!! I LOVE THESE GUYS!!! RIAA FUCK YOUUUUUU!!!
what the fuck is riaa
i really enjoy watching a corporate entity, whose sole means of support is money they rip from artists, call me a thief for downloading music that i have already purchased. almost all of the music i have helped seed have been downloaded because CDs are so easily destroyed. i buy a CD and a month later its scratched or has some mysterious skipping, am i supposed to go spend another $20 because a corporation made a bad product? or is there some kind of solution free people have come up with to protect us from bad overpriced merchandise.
then this same corporate entity tells me im stealing from the creators. these lawyers can only create arbitrary laws, not art, which gives them no right to comment on how art is distributed. if one cannot do, one makes laws to prevent others from doing as well. please folks go read some books, maybe some philosophy, something that will introduce you to the idea that an unjust government is something to be destroyed (see our own constitution for this specific point).
allow me to quote from the New Hampshire Bill of Rights (1784):
Article 10. Right of Revolution: Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community and not for the interests or emoluments of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
my paraphrased version of that is: when a government built to protect becomes a tool of corporate, military backed, state sponsored oppression and mind control, then it is the purpose of free people to destroy the entrenched status quo. rebuilding is easy once the ignorant and power hungry are gone. (if you are one who is sitting there and saying the people will turn riotous or revert to your concept of anarchy, then you are in fact part of the problem and will not be around for the solution, so don’t try to start thinking now, just relax your pretty little head, the adults are in control now) to all of my pirate brethren, all my respect and wishes for success tenfold, somehow someway someday we will find the way and earn back our freedom.
FOr all those that defended the RIAA, I should point out they are stealing the royalties of indy labels that arent member of the RIAA. Now they claim they will deliver these royalties, but you have to become a member of RIAA to do so. Otherwise the money goes in their pockets.
http://gundampilotspaz.com/2007/04/29/riaa-to-collect-money-for-independant-non-riaa-artists/
To me, downloading a song for free is a lot less severe than collecting money for something you dont own, especially if you will go see their show or support in other ways.
[quote comment="269070"]Comedy Gold.
http://www.trinitycommercial.com/quote
Eat shit and die spammer.
the hackers shouldve done this…hacked the site and put some links to mp3s….then WE ( read normal ppl) could sue them for copyright infringement.hahahah
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