A representative of a group called " w0rm " said on Twitter that they have hacked the customer database of CNET.com. This Russ...
A representative of a group called "w0rm" said on Twitter that they have hacked the customer database of CNET.com. This Russian team of hackers has also posted a picture of the remote access to a server in the U.S. site, which proves the intrusion. Jen Boscacci, communications director of CBS Interactive (which owns CNET) said Sunday, July 13: "some servers were consulted, we have identified the problem and we solved it." It would actually be a security flaw in the Symfony framework that CNET uses it.
https//w0rm.in/cnet.com.tar.gz cnet hacked, here is src of www. pic.twitter.com/ggkaNF3VfE
— w0rm (@rev_priv8) July 12, 2014
A big stunt
W0rm hackers have stolen a database containing the names and passwords (encrypted) of more than one million users. But CBS said it actually want to monetize this data. This does not prevent hackers from w0rm to sell the base for the modest sum of one Bitcoin!
These pirates are not newcomers, they claim to have successfully accessed the site last year to the BBC, Adobe and Bank of America. They say, this is their way of raising awareness of security issues on the Web. Moreover, Monday, 14 July, the representative of w0rm on Twitter proposed a security solution to CNET (see below). The hack of the largest sites in the world for them is a great stunt ...
#cnet i have good protection system for u, ping me.
— w0rm (@rev_priv8) July 14, 2014
