I’ve harped on these douche bags for months and warned people about the potential that they could be influencing the Canadian government to take steps towards shutting down MP3 downloads through out our country. While nothing major has happened in terms of this new law being passed I came across a story that while being so busy sending ridiculous lawsuits to citizens apparently the RIAA forgot to hire a respectable web programmer to protect there website. It became nothing more then a place to promote the downloading of illegal files, enjoy….
RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
Written by Ernesto on January 20, 2008
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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Let’s just all agree that these douce bags had it coming.
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