Postmaster.aol.com, at time of writing, is hacked. For several hours! Perhaps a DNS thing that can't be fixed by turning off the server?
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10:30 am Sat
Aug 13, 2011
AOL hacked
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Apparently at least 5 hours ago: https://twitter.com/#!/sjinks_pro/status/102355547373838336 Wow.
I better warn my granny.
what’s AOL?
AOL is Time Warner’s version of Lycos
Oh no, alert all 50 subscribers!!!
The image is hosted (surely by hack) in a French lame hype-content blog under wordpress.
Look at the favicon : http://leblog.vendeesign.com/ “Web 2.0”
Mhh, it tastes like a big fail (and a exploit in the wild)
Lines 9-12 are the sauce.
Line 11, in particular, makes me weep.
Hilarious newbie password!
This isn’t one of those “This Day In History” things, is it?
wow!
Can’t resist…
Was it for the aolz?
Ha ha ha! People have been hacking AOL for 15 years!
http://aolwatch.org/hacks.htm
(My favorite one was the time they hacked that ad for the TV series “Charmed.”)
Yea haha very funny, hacking of anything sucks. To the savvy reader of BB this is no big deal, but my computer literacy challenged mom still utilizes an AOL email account because she’s had the same email for 15 yrs and it’s on her business cards etc.
By all means blame the thief, but the bank that left the vault open bears some responsibility as well.
What do you expect? They hired former Google Operations President Tim Armstrong. That’s like inviting the fox into the henhouse.
I hope Prodigy and NetZero are OK.