Showing that the savviest online media operations are susceptible to assault, hackers took down popular industry blog TechCrunch for several hours on Monday night. At around 10:30 pm PST, unknown
hackers modified the TechCrunch home page to only display the word "hi." The page was later changed to read "We'll be back shortly," which suggested that webmasters had by then regained control of the
site. Later in the night, the site was apparently hacked again, and a link called "rapidshare downloads" appeared on the home page, which pointed visitors to DupeDB, a known "warez" Web site.
The hackers took over TechCrunch for a third time and left one offensive message accompanied by a link to the illegal content distribution site. "Either way we expect TechCrunch, who has
provided extensive coverage of other site compromises, to be just as up front in analyzing how their own site was cracked," said security researchers from Praetorian Security Group. At the moment,
however, the incident remains a mystery.
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