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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awsome!
[quote comment="268361"][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[/quote]
I have to agree here, I’ve been in music for years. I don’t think priacy is good, but when you look at how the RIAA are treating the musicians and customers, I can think it’s justified in many cases. Look at the big name musicians that are even critical of them and think about it. I for one hate paying $16-20USD for a cd that the musician only gets pennies from. now, pirating from a small indy type label is something I can’t see, but they tend to treat everyone much better.
Hey, Retard Industry Association of America, you got your little punk asses pwned big time.
pwned
[quote comment="269493"]pwned[/quote]
Yes their little punk asses got pwned. How do you like that Retard Industry Association of America. Yahboo sucks!!
Retard Industry Association of America got pwned :-) Does your programmer still have a job?
Hey RIAA, lameness is no excuse
BURN RIAA! BURN !!
What should have been done was after cleaning the site up ..Hackers should have uploaded a movie and should have started a seed from there own server installing some rootkit torrent and then asked them to sue themselves ..or better make MPAA sue RIAA and make them suck their own CUNT….
hack them all!
i like the last screenshot there, specifically the error message, lol
I Think Ä°t is very good information…
Webmaster
HACK THE PLANET! :D
LoL
That was nice to Riaa (or about 90% of the internet lik’d it)
THE RIAA IS A BUENCH OF OUTDATASSED OLD ASSHOLES. I RECOMMEND THAT NO ONE PAY FOR ANY MUSIC OF ANYKIND. - THEY RIP OFF THE ARTISTS AND MAKE THEIR MONEY BY BEING A PARASITE LIVING OFF THE TALENT OF OTHERS. I CALL ON ANYONE WITH BOTS TO CONTINUE
D-DOSING THEM AND KEEPING THEIR SITE OFF LINE. HEY CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE BABY FIGHT THE BASTARDS
Sry about the caps wasen’t looking when typing.
[quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
LMAO… Tust me anything that you try to do (if your programers can even come up with anything) it will be overcome within days. It is amazing to me that most of ur cases are actually fake and that people dont do what you said they did. (You said my frined downloaded a movie that was 184 KB in size.. LMAO do i need to teach someone about file sizes) I would say come to my house and ill make a fool out of you. Anyway someone should put together a big class action suit agains these fake bastards and show them that unlike them who hide behinde there desks and accuse people all day that we can fight back.
[quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
Looks like they sent their best and brightest to represent.
Man. This shit is simply too good.
YOHO YOHO AND BLOW THE MAN DOWN
2012 = end of the world according to mayan prophecy, that is all this idiot is going on about, nothing to do with the mafiaa. Look it up if you can be assed.
[quote comment="268730"]You are all thieves. Before all this piracy I made approx. $30 million per year. Now I’m lucky to make $15 million per year.
How the FudK and i supposed to live on that and support my family.[/quote]
I LOLed at this. Really hard.
Fantastic news.
I love it.
-Surfer
BTW…
…the RIAA is the devil.
Long Live *the orginal* Napster.
-Surfer
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