Project Euler has been hacked

It's sad that someone would hack a site like this. The only thing they could possibly want are the email and password combinations. I hope they are stored in a secure way.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#5

Post by kachnuv_ocasek » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 9:55 AM UTC

Again? Why do people do this? It'd probably be easier to export everything to static HTML with solutions hidden, and serve just that.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#6

Post by Marval13 » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 10:06 AM UTC

kachnuv_ocasek wrote: post #5

Again? Why do people do this? It'd probably be easier to export everything to static HTML with solutions hidden, and serve just that.

You mean it has been hacked in the past?

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#7

Post by vog » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 10:10 AM UTC

Marval13 wrote: post #6

kachnuv_ocasek wrote: post #5

Again? Why do people do this? It'd probably be easier to export everything to static HTML with solutions hidden, and serve just that.

You mean it has been hacked in the past?

Last time it was hacked about a year ago. This is the relevant HN discussion when the site went back again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181773

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#8

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 10:17 AM UTC

flux_w42 wrote: post #4

It's sad that someone would hack a site like this. The only thing they could possibly want are the email and password combinations. I hope they are stored in a secure way.

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Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#9

Post by digitalzombie » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 10:23 AM UTC

Marval13 wrote: post #6

kachnuv_ocasek wrote: post #5

Again? Why do people do this? It'd probably be easier to export everything to static HTML with solutions hidden, and serve just that.

You mean it has been hacked in the past?

Yeeeep. It got hacked in the past and was down for awhile cause of the hack too.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#10

Post by madez » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 10:27 AM UTC

flux_w42 wrote: post #4

It's sad that someone would hack a site like this. The only thing they could possibly want are the email and password combinations. I hope they are stored in a secure way.

Think about agencies, not private actors — then this site makes a perfect target. Recruit and subvert are basic tasks for these agenices, and to do so you need information about the candidates. This website had probably a significantly higher proportion of interesting prospects.