Project Euler has been hacked • Hacker News Board

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#21

Post by xudongz » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

Took this screenshot last night: https://i.imgur.com/pl22srz.png

I would have reported it to someone at project euler but couldn't find any contact information beyond a link to an inactive forum.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#22

Post by fibo » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

88e282102ae2e5b wrote: post #12

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.

There are plenty of other motivations. It could be: 1) a novice hacker looking for experience 2) an automated bot that scanned IPs for some vulnerability and acted on its own when it found one 3) someone looking to extort the owner for money 4) someone with a personal vendetta against the owner 5) someone looking to secretly plant bitcoin mining software on the servers (who got caught) 6) someone looking to alter the…

I would discard 1) cause a real hacker, even if novice, would enter without damaging or stopping the service. He/She would maybe report to the owner the vulnerability or even would keep it secret.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#23

Post by sidcool » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

What kind of sickos would hack project euler.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#24

Post by zubairsaif007 » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 1:56 PM UTC

http://googler700.blogspot.com/

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#25

Post by vien » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

"Es gibt schon schöne Trotteln!" (Armin Wolf)

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#26

Post by lolwuttt » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

What kind of a world do we live in, when a guy can't even run an educational mathematics website without getting hassled?

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#27

Post by bibek22 » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

Came to know about projecteuler just now and found the site has been hacked. What a pity. Hope it gets back live again.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#28

Post by njloof » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

lolwuttt wrote: post #26

What kind of a world do we live in, when a guy can't even run an educational mathematics website without getting hassled?

I blame Project Quaternion.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#29

Post by logicrime » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

Hasn't this happened before? Clearly they have security issues abound.

Re: Project Euler has been hacked

#30

Post by gioele » Sun, Aug 02, 2015, 3:33 PM UTC

xudongz wrote: post #21

Took this screenshot last night: https://i.imgur.com/pl22srz.png I would have reported it to someone at project euler but couldn't find any contact information beyond a link to an inactive forum.

WHOIS is usually useful in these cases:

    $ whois projecteuler.net | grep -i email
    Registrar Abuse Contact Email: support@domainbox.com
    Registrant Email: projecteuler.net@...
    Admin Email: projecteuler.net@...
    Tech Email: projecteuler.net@...