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AOL hacked

Rob Beschizza at 10:30 am Sat, Aug 13, 2011

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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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16 Responses to “AOL hacked”

  1. stepshep says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:36 am

    Apparently at least 5 hours ago: https://twitter.com/#!/sjinks_pro/status/102355547373838336 Wow.

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  2. Bubba73 says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:37 am

    I better warn my granny.

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  3. jeffkart says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:39 am

    what’s AOL?

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  4. the damned fool says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:45 am

    AOL is Time Warner’s version of Lycos

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  5. Matthew says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:50 am

    Oh no, alert all 50 subscribers!!!

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  6. dascritch says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:52 am

    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)

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  7. flosofl says:
    August 13, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Lines 9-12 are the sauce.

    Line 11, in particular, makes me weep.

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  8. SHeadius says:
    August 13, 2011 at 10:06 am

    Hilarious newbie password!

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  9. Ben Carlsen says:
    August 13, 2011 at 10:09 am

    This isn’t one of those “This Day In History” things, is it?

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  10. tekvax says:
    August 13, 2011 at 10:24 am

    wow! 

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  11. kktkkr says:
    August 13, 2011 at 10:35 am

    Can’t resist…

    Was it for the aolz?

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  12. Lou Cabron says:
    August 13, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    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.”)

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  13. Chauncey Scott says:
    August 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    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.

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    • flosofl says:
      August 13, 2011 at 10:27 pm

      By all means blame the thief, but the bank that left the vault open bears some responsibility as well.

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  14. Palomino says:
    August 13, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    What do you expect? They hired former Google Operations President Tim Armstrong. That’s like inviting the fox into the henhouse.

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  15. neurolux says:
    August 13, 2011 at 11:54 pm

    I hope Prodigy and NetZero are OK.

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