PBS Hacked, Tupac Still Dead

[6souls]

The PBS Web site briefly carried a fake story claiming that the famed rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand after a group of hackers took over the organization’s computer systems on Saturday night.

In addition to posting the fake news story, the group, which identified itself on Twitter as @LulzSec or The Lulz Boat, began posting passwords and e-mail addresses of people from a wide range of news organizations and other information belonging to PBS.

As late as 2:30 a.m. on Monday, PBS had still not regained control of its Web site as the hackers continued to post defaced pages.

Comments posted by LulzSec indicated that the group was unhappy with a Frontline program about WikiLeaks that recently aired on PBS. The group began posting messages on Twitter about midnight on Sunday: “What’s wrong with @PBS, how come all of its servers are rooted? How come their database is seized? Why are passwords cracked?” That message was following by a succession of follow-up posts with links to lists of passwords and other data.

Shortly afterward, it appeared that PBS was aware of the intrusion and the news organization posted statements acknowledging the hack, and pointing out that the story about Tupac Shakur was a fake.

A NewsHour employee, Teresa Gorman, replied to questions on Sunday on the Twitter site, noting that the story about the rapper, who died in Las Vegas in 1996, was fake.

The story was posted at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday on the PBS NewsHour news blog, “The Rundown.”

The group posted a list of the material it had taken and a brief commentary: “Anyway, say hello to the inside of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they’re sailing next time.” The posted material included a version of the defaced page with the fake story, passwords for the new organization’s MySQL database, station passwords, Frontline logins, a map of the organization’s internal network and other material

The group has attacked other media organizations in the last month, according to Secure Business Intelligence (http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/25...oxs-scalp.aspx), including Fox News and the X-Factor television show.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/te...s.html?_r=2&hp

[SephYuyX]

Hacking PBS is like beating up a kid with downs.

[Qalbert]

http://pastehtml.com/view/aveu1972n.html
Username: amandah. Password: AmandaH.
looooool
edit: only 7 people had password as their password

[SephYuyX]

http://pastehtml.com/view/aveu1972n.html
Username: amandah. Password: AmandaH.
looooool
edit: only 7 people had password as their password

Wow, looking through that list, there is not ONE secure password.

[Kuya]

The lulz boat.

[Priran]

Take that, PBS. You smug bastards.

[archibaldcrane]

Wow, looking through that list, there is not ONE secure password.

Secure? Lol. The "most secure" password in the world would just be another in the list.

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[mightyg]

Take that, PBS. You smug bastards.

lol

[friedfunk]

I wonder how many of these mail servers at that link have reset their email account passwords. Because you know 90% of the email passwords will be the same.

[Draylo]

Secure? Lol. The "most secure" password in the world would just be another in the list.

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Something a little harder than "Password" maybe?

[Rhinox]

[Thoronas]

Curious if the WikiSecrets show was really the catalyst for the attack. I didn't see it so no idea if it was bad. All I could find on Lulzsec's twitter timeline was that it sucked. Nothing about whether it was boring or biased.

[Plow]

Wow, looking through that list, there is not ONE secure password.

there's a few aDasdfE43Dk13jk54l ones

[kyod]

Curious if the WikiSecrets show was really the catalyst for the attack. I didn't see it so no idea if it was bad. All I could find on Lulzsec's twitter timeline was that it sucked. Nothing about whether it was boring or biased.

I saw the episode. It was decent. But if you are of the mindset that Wikileaks can do no wrong and no information should be secret, you would probably be frothing at the mouth.

[Demosthenes11]

Wow, looking through that list, there is not ONE secure password.

god damn I can't stand this attitude. I think something like 0612jm49 is fine, unless you are one of those fags that thinks shit gets stolen unless it contains alternating caps, numbers, and a few #(@

[Cleverness]

god damn I can't stand this attitude. I think something like 0612jm49 is fine, unless you are one of those fags that thinks shit gets stolen unless it contains alternating caps, numbers, and a few #(@

That kind of password is fine unless the numbers are something extremely obviously, like birthdate of 06/12/49 and jm is the initials of the person. Otherwise it's gonna be very difficult for someone to guess it.

Of course they could just hack the entire system and make the point moot.

[Souj]

sorry, had to be done.

[Khamsin]

http://pastehtml.com/view/aveu1972n.html
Username: amandah. Password: AmandaH.
looooool
edit: only 7 people had password as their password

Username: kayk. Password: 1234.

2 people have: 1234
2 people have: 12345
2 people have: 123456
2 people have: (initials or username)1234

[Plow]

Username: kayk. Password: 1234.

2 people have: 1234
2 people have: 12345
2 people have: 123456
2 people have: (initials or username)1234

There's a 321123 and a fair bit of other crap like that as well.

[Blarg]

I like bob's pw. username is bob pw is bob