Breaking News: TechCrunch.com Hacked!
TechCrunch.com, the worlds most popular blog on technology has been hacked! It is showing weird messages on the Homepage..
First it showed the message using a link as “rapidshare downloads” which was redirecting to a different website. After 3 minuted the message changes and it was showing showing a “Hi” message.
Now it changed again and it is showing “We’ll be back shortly”.
The Techcrunch Owners and bloggers should take some step very soon. It does not appear to be a DNS hijack as all the DNS servers are showing proper values. It appears to be a server hijacking. Just my guess.
Update: TechCrunch is Back on Track!
Update: TechCrunch got hacked again. Appears to be a recurring hack! “We’ll be back shortly” message is shown again!
Update: Also a weird message is shown on one of its post! Check the following screenshot:
Update: TechCrunch is up again! But some of the post pages are not opening.
Update: Every link is working now!
Update: TechCrunch has not recovered completely! The About Page shows a funny message. Check the ScreenShot.
Update: Now most of the Static pages are showing 404 errors! and the Home page is showing the the earlier “We’ll be back shortly” message!
Update: All the Static pages as well as the Post pages along with the Home Page are showing the Same message! “We’ll be back shortly”
Update: A message is posted on every page saying:
“Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.
We’re working to identify the exploit and will bring the site back online shortly.”
Update: Techcrunch is back and all the pages are loading properly. I hope this will be the last update!
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Comments (18)
ksbnok
January 25th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Oh man! It was historic a website getting millions of visitors each day is hacked…. now wordpress has to again review its security issues n close the specific loop hole that caused this….
Ramkumar
January 26th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Is TechCrunch using Wordpress platform for their blogging, I thought they have made a personal platform for them, as far as best of my knowledge they are not using Wordpress.
Rohit Sane
January 26th, 2010 at 12:02 am
@RamKumar: Its wordpress platform!
MostlyBlog
January 26th, 2010 at 1:48 am
yes it’s working now
Jimmy Burnett
January 26th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
TechCrunch getting hacked isn’t really big news. In fact websites getting hacked is so common now everyone is used to it. You just expect to get hacked…
Agent Deepak
January 27th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Huh! No one is secure.
Steven Briggs
January 27th, 2010 at 2:31 am
You missed one of the screens…I’ve put it up for your viewing pleasure.
http://hyperfocused.com/techcrunch_hacked.png
My screenshot shows a specific URL, but I saw this page on the main page as well.
EM @ KING.NET
January 27th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thanks for sharing your timely update.
I also mentioned your blog to my blog regarding this post.
http://www.king.net/2010/01/techcrunchcom-hacked.html
Cheers,
EM
sudharsan @ technoskillonline
January 27th, 2010 at 9:59 am
YA
its good to hear that it is back again
Anish K.S
January 27th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Shocking news
, its my favorite blog
Lee | UseGet
January 27th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
That’s really scary. I faced the same problem last month as my blog got hacked by France hacker but managed to recover again. Be careful of hackers.
blinkky
January 27th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I see many sites got hacked these days…
Ruchi
January 27th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
That’s really bad news. But glad it is back again. We all need a poewrful security tool for WP, every now and then I came across hacking news.
Beth
January 28th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Wow this sucks… kinda ironic though; one of the most popular tech blogs is hacked…
I mean, aren’t tech people suppose to be keen on this kind of thing?
S.Pradeep Kumar
January 30th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Man.. online world is really not secure.. I’m really worried about my blog and social media accounts.. !
Pubudu Kodikara
January 31st, 2010 at 1:24 am
If some one can hack a big site like TechCrunch….. what about us???? better be careful…. thanks for the news bro!
Rohit Sane
February 5th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Its a chock that such a great and popular website can get hacked too…But we must stay as much secure as possible and try our best to avoid such a calamity.
rajesh
February 19th, 2010 at 2:19 am
As the popularity of and website increased the chances of getting hacked also increased.
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