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Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by sidcool » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:21 PM UTC

Yes, I am getting this as the page: http://i.imgur.com/Z0E2RVG.jpg

Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by deskamess » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:24 PM UTC

namecast wrote: post #16

illuminek wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. They seems helpless.

Or complicit. The message posted sounds like a plea to return the recently departed CEO to power, or am I misreading it?

Reading that I got a vibe of a "cry/message from the inside".

Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by LaFolle » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:24 PM UTC

Its more than an hour and still down!

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Post by sangupta » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:33 PM UTC

illuminek wrote: post #8

It is backup again now.

Still down at 6:00PM IST.

Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by simonswords82 » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:33 PM UTC

ishanr wrote: post #12

its not india's leading startup.

What is then?

Edit: Thanks for the feedback, I didn't know some of these (like VWO) were of Indian origin.

Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by linux_devil » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:34 PM UTC

very sad day for housing, I mean some scaling issues are fine but deface is catastrophic . Good luck to housing

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Post by linux_devil » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:36 PM UTC

simonswords82 wrote: post #25

ishanr wrote: post #12

its not india's leading startup.

What is then? Edit: Thanks for the feedback, I didn't know some of these (like VWO) were of Indian origin.

flipkart , olacabs , snapdeal , zomato ,etc. are also there , but it's definitely one of the leading ones

Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by anant90 » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:38 PM UTC

illuminek wrote: post #20

anant90 wrote: post #17

If nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech…

I am surprised to see, that people are not able to redirect it to some decent maintenance page. What could have gone wrong at tech?

It pretty much looks like an inside job.

Surprising bit lies in some engineers working on the infra thinking it's cool to deface the company's site to show support for their fired CEO.

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Post by dotheneedfull » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:43 PM UTC

anant90 wrote: post #17

If nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech…

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Re: Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

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Post by dotheneedfull » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 12:46 PM UTC

HappyTypist wrote: post #11

The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.

Maybe they should have offshore their IT function!

/meta snark