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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[b]>Why is stealing music ok?[/b]
Define stealing.
[b]>then its ok to go grab your
paycheck from your mailbox right [/b]
Weak analogy.
[b]>who is teaching the future
generations here?[/b]
Hopefully note Entitlement_Minded
overpaid, ungrateful egomaniacs.
-Surfer
Right . Major anti p2p victory . This is probably the final blow , they oughta be comatose by now .
Get a grip ppl , it`s only a minor inconvenience to them anyway . While you`re laughing your butts off they`re merrily screwing some poor slob`s life just enough to get themselves a better database programmer
We are teaching future generations that communication is essential to human beings and that it cannot be stopped, only delayed.
We are also teaching them that sharing of information leads to greater works of art and music.
Labels bend over artists during negotiations thats #1, Artists do not make that much off the sale of a CD #2, Lets assume that they did I really do not feel sorry for the likes of Pdidy, Madonna, etc etc when they buy a plane ticket to a cake, and island to their 10 year old or 15 hummers with spinners thats #3. We are already getting treated like pirates and thieves so we might as well pirate stuff #4, YOU ARE DOING WHAT WE ARE DOING, IE: RIAA TYPE ORGANIZATION STEALING CODE FROM LINUX #5.
Also, if an artist is dead then how can they lose money? It is not like Kurt is going to buy presents for Courtney from the other side…. So suits get paid for what they did not create nor inspired but hey we gotta pay them so they can dig up kurt and put the greenbacks in his pockets.
Yeah get bent RIAA…. You are not one bit concerned about the artists. You are just pissed off you are losing money but cant really say anything else other than “OH you pirates are hurting the artists”
You know whats great tough? Even if you found a way to stop piracy, there would be so much user created movies, artworks and music to keep us pirates busy and stop buying your junk…… guess what it would be legal and I will bet you anything that you would use this user created media………..
[quote comment="268190"]Your time is coming. Just wait until late 2012, you’ll see what we mean.[/quote]
jlpo
>While you`re laughing your butts
off they`re merrily screwing some poor slob`s life just enough to get
themselves a better database
programmer
And your point is what?
Do you support the RIAA?
Let me take the lead here…
…IMO the RIAA is big brother realized.
This is not a test. They hold up
archaic and completely outdated
copyright law as a shield to justify
their profit_obsessed_greed_driven
jihad against technology.
Copyright law is throughly outdated
in todays digitally_connected world.
The Greatful Dead got it right…
…the RIAA should learn from their
success.
-Surfer
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THE INTERNET WARS HAVE BEGUN…
RIAA VS HACKERS AND PIRATES OF THE WORLD….
Ah, serves them right.
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Unfortunately, security is extremely difficult to manage even by corporations, let alone home users.
Computers should be simpler to minimize security problems. Until then, all users should educate themselves on this boring things in order to stay safe on the Internet.
—————————
Andres Berger
Managing Director
http://www.SafeComputer.org
way to go whoever crashed that site there needs to be more people like him that is so funny tho
What a bunch of immature freaks. You should be thinking about how you’re going to pay for your food and rent when your mommy gets tired of you and kicks your lazy ass out. Instead, you’re dwelling on ripping off the music industry, and how to damage web sites. What a bunch of mindless loosers. I hope you all get sued up the wazoo.
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 comment="268406"]musicians shouldn’t expect a cd to support their families. they should be out playing their music across the world every day without a family to worry about in the first place.[/quote]
Exactly! Spot on.
These people that say they’re ‘artists’ or ‘musicians’ blah blah…obviously aren’t….if they were, they’d know the drill.
Get off ya asses and do gigs! I’ve been there….done that.
It’s called ‘working for you wages’.
die mega-arsehole bitch
someone should hack them so millions of mp3s are downloaded using their ip, and sue them for copyright infringement :D
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer mob, and many happy returns. To everyone trying vainly to convince the mobsters that sharing is not stealing; don’t bother. It’s their propaganda warcry. When a lie is repeated often enough it is believed, as attested by history. When they feel they are losing money (making less), instead of blaming themselves for their poor image and crap products, they look to the source of least resistance to squarely place the blame. We their customers. To this end they rabidly pursue, bully, victimize, harass etc etc until their profits start rising again. They realize that all this will lessen sales a little also and so the solution is to inflate prices even further, along with litigation, which has become their secondary source of “income”. To all the lamers & trolls - [nothing]
To the moron who said ‘how’d u like me to come to your house & steal your stuff’. You already do, that’s why the attitude.
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