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My two cents: I guess they were using xmlrpc to post to the blog. The incutio xmlrpc library (or rather the metaweblog api which wordpress uses) requires that you send the username and password in the clear, so a man in the middle could easily gain access to their wordpress install.
I was trying to view TechCrunch's "TechCrunch Hacked" article... but it was hacked.
You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .
That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.
Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
