FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#1

Post by abhishekdelta » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 7:50 PM UTC

The news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677527) currently on top in HN is a fake one. It was an old FBI hack by CyberZeist that happened in June 2012. Here's the real news url:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberZeist-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Hundreds-of-Federal-Accounts-276384.shtml

And here's the original url of the hack details:

http://leakster.net/leaks/fbimail

It seems someone simply copy-pasted the old stuff to make it look like a new hack by THA, (or may be they themselves did it for publicity?).

EDIT: Good news, the fake post is dead now. FTR http://pastebin.com/BjZMZV63

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#2

Post by Dylan16807 » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 8:39 PM UTC

Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged?

Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#3

Post by enraged_camel » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 8:42 PM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #2

Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged? Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?

Presumably because it would have been buried among the hundred or so other comments in there?

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#4

Post by abhishekdelta » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #2

Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged? Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?

Its "Fake" in the context of the original post's claims.

And FYI I did post a comment at-first but hardly anyone noticed it (that includes you too).. probably because the original post already had over a 90 comments and people didn't bother to go through all of them.

And I could already find some online websites and tech news blogs starting to pick this news up from here and spread it on the internet. This kind of news spreads so virally! So I made a post out of it so that people notice it. And they did. Mission accomplished :)

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#5

Post by brokenparser » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 8:49 PM UTC

I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#6

Post by abhishekdelta » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 9:01 PM UTC

brokenparser wrote: post #5

I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.

It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#7

Post by brokenparser » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 9:07 PM UTC

abhishekdelta wrote: post #6

brokenparser wrote: post #5

I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.

It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.

I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#8

Post by jason_adleberg » Sat, Oct 20, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

I mean, it's happened before once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#9

Post by fluxon » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 3:41 AM UTC

brokenparser wrote: post #7

abhishekdelta wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.

I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.

I had pie a couple of months ago. I still want pie.

Re: FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

#10

Post by EGreg » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 7:59 AM UTC

fluxon wrote: post #9

brokenparser wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.

I had pie a couple of months ago. I still want pie.

American pie?