Snapnames.com hacked!!

[Australia]

i just went to snapnames.com and came up with the following message

This Site Has Been Hacked For Some Fraud Selling(1)



[email protected] From IRAN

( And Mr Monte Cohn CEO Of moniker.com requested me to hack snapnames.com too ) (2

check it out

 

[Badger]

From memory, i believe these guys arent some kind of techno wizards, they simply telephone the hosts, pretending to be from [domain owner company] and somehow get someone at the host to divulge the password to WHM... :bingo:

So, more rocket salad than rocket science...

 

[Dave_Z]

From memory, i believe these guys arent some kind of techno wizards, they simply telephone the hosts, pretending to be from [domain owner company] and somehow get someone at the host to divulge the password to WHM... :bingo:

So, more rocket salad than rocket science...

Goes to show simple methods work best. In this case, it's deadly.

I won't be surprised if the FBI's been looking into this guy for the longest time.
But it's a big question mark as to how to apprehend the perpetrator.

 

[Zinc]

I guess he's a little sore after accidentally letting his 'world' names expire

DOH!

 

[harpo]

i really think our cc info maybe the most single line of attack thats happening here,

 

[inviz]

Hey, WT* happened to the posts i was just reading here ?

 

[Ben]

Odd. Why was my post deleted?

 

[RJ]

I deleted a couple of posts in this thread. I don't see the point of inflaming a hacker who has already proven several times he has the time and determination available to hack sites and make people miserable. Sorry to be a censor here, but this is a bit of a sensitive subject for me since the events of last August.

 

[TUFKATH]

I deleted a couple of posts in this thread. I don't see the point of inflaming a hacker who has already proven several times he has the time and determination available to hack sites and make people miserable. Sorry to be a censor here, but this is a bit of a sensitive subject for me since the events of last August.

Did NamePros get hacked or something?

 

[Australia]

its back up in australia. i still got my domain in auction luckily. thank god for proxy bidding

 

[Ben]

Did NamePros get hacked or something?

If I remember correctly he social engineered the server company NamePros is with into giving him access to the server. So, yes; NamePros was hacked.

 

[TUFKATH]

That sucks. Sorry to hear that... anything important or valuable harmed?

 

[RJ]

Yes, this is the same hacker that deleted NamePros and DNJournal last August, and now Snapnames.

 

[Ben]

Does anyone know what this hacker is trying to accomplish here? This isn't a flame towards the hacker, I'm just interested in why he's going after domaining sites.

 

[RJ]

Does anyone know what this hacker is trying to accomplish here? This isn't a flame towards the hacker, I'm just interested in why he's going after domaining sites.

His message for NP members was "Don't report stolen domains that don't belong to you." He is a domain hijacker who deals in high profile names. I think the original beef was with DNF though for the same thing. Sedo is said to be the next target because they banned Iran from participating at their site. The SnapNames "reason" was posted on their homepage.

 

[WebmasterTalk.us]

Haha, this is pretty cool!

 

[Australia]

Haha, this is pretty cool!

why?

 

[RJ]

Haha, this is pretty cool!

Not really.

 

[Ben]

Haha, this is pretty cool!

I wouldn't really describe it as "cool".

 

[gamehouse]

I suggest this thread to be closed. Normally these kind of guys love publicity or any discussion about what they did.

If the discussion is about how to protect your sites or servers, thats another thing.

But thats not what is happening here.

Gamehouse, IMHO.

 

[RJ]

Thread closed. Let's move on.