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Gawker media taunts Anonymous; gets hacked
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Manos: The Hans of Fate
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So how many Spaceballs fans?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Gawker has an encryption but with time (shit lot of time) they could've been decrypted. They simply ran out of time and couldn't decrypt all of them (my password didn't make the "decryption" cut even though my password for kotaku account was shit easy).Valkyr Junkie said:
The easier ones with characters followed by numbers or numbers followed by characters are out there. Ones with multiple combinations are not decrypted but their encryption is available, and the email addresses are available for all accounts accessed.
RustyNails said:
Yes I worked and found dumb password like "cuminmyface" and "bigtits" (users weren't really happy when I asked them, sucks for them) but at least they didn't put password :lol I am serious when I say that never found anyone with the password/password combination. That is really a level above the usual stupidity of the average business user.
RustyNails
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I have a question...can Gawker take this to court?
lol :lol :lolitxaka said:
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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If they find people behind this, yes. Hell, you can take Gawker to court for saying that they were being too fucking cocky, got hacked and your accounts got hacked.RustyNails said:
Callo Merlose
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No.DeathbyVolcano said:
MiniBossBattle
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This is why we should never bring on the wrath of 4chan. Still some dumb passwords. If I were a user, I would sue Gawker.
Metalmurphy said:
short answer: yes
I'm sure there's people here who could explain this better but basically it's a good idea to 'salt' passwords and then hash them. Gawker didn't bother doing this so anyone with enough time of their hands could run these against a list of known hashes and work them out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
RustyNails
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Only if they find the guys who did that? I asked this because something similar happened with Sarah Palin's account, and moot was asked to give testimony in court. Maybe we can expect something like that again?shagg_187 said:
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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(._.) said:
Hmm, putting it that way...it's not as bad. :lol
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Sarah Palin is motherfucking Sarah Palin!RustyNails said:
Of course, they can take moot to testify but Gnosis are taking responsibility for the hack, not 4chan.
cuevas. PhD.
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Wolf Akela said:
Why do people still do this? I have separate passwords for my email and bank account then some random passwords for sites I sign up for and save them on firefox. The ones for random sites are just different combinations of the same PW so if I ever lose my FF I can guess them. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
Yes, that is how DES works...Catshade said:
The Windows LM Hash also has various flaws due to how MS implemented it. This is used through at least Vista that I know of. It is easy to crack passwords, especially when they are in the SAM and few characters (less than 8). Using a pass-phrase (longer than 15 characters) makes it so your password is not hashed.
polyh3dron
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Ugh.
VGChampion
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Are these the people who went to the trade show and used their toy remotes to turn off TV's at a profesional trade show? If so, can't say they didn't deserve it. Children attack other children. News at 11.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
VGChampion said:
I think so. They are also the people that had the leaked iphone.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Hylian7 said:
Follow these steps:
1. http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/
2. Enter your email address under "Input", and click on "MD5". Copy the "Result".
3. http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662
4. Click on "Show Options" and change the filter to "MD5". Paste the copied "Result" and see if it shows up on search. If it does then your password has been compromised and sooner or later will be hacked if they feel like it.
polyh3dron
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No matter what a thread is talking about, on GAF there will be at least one person who chimes in saying "What/who is x?" even for things that you think would be no-brainers.Zilch said:
cuevas. PhD.
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why isn't my username on any of the files? When I went through all of them I realized I skipped over the dumb passwords and I had an awful feeling go through me but luckily I wasn't in there either.
Depending on your definition of good, I'd argue that it can't be doneitxaka said:
What site were you referencing in particular?
http://www.freerainbowtables.com/en/hashcracking/ ?
Solaros said:Depending on your definition of good, I'd argue that it can't be done
What site were you referencing in particular?
I dare you to try it with your own password because it's pretty awesome. I got out the other day this password:
"Hpg{%h'U])82M
freaking awesome, this is the address: http://www.objectif-securite.ch/en/products.php
From the Ophcrack guys. The demo is at the lowest part of the page, enter the hash and click it
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Gawker has a "policy" that they don't delete accounts of users. I just logged in and changed everything to random bullshit.celebi23 said:
victreeb3l
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i honestly have no idea whether or not i ever posted a comment there. i fuckin hate gawker media but whatever, pretty scary how a giant can be brought to its knees so easily
will they take any legal action? is that even possible?
will they take any legal action? is that even possible?
nVidiot_Whore
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Vamphuntr said:
They have the e-mail address of everyone.
They figured out the passwords of lots of people, especially those with poorly thought out passwords... and of course various Gawker employees, bad passwords or not.
I'm sure they could then take the same e-mail, use it as a login elsewhere, and try the passwords of those users.
I'm guessing they may have done this specifically for the accounts of Gawker editors.
nVidiot_Whore
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Zilch said:
Haha something about how angry you seem in this post cracked me up.
I've been on the internet since the beginning.. while I've heard of gawker, I had no clue it was all that popular. *shrug*
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Every time I think of these bold heroes of the internet, I shed a single tear.D4Danger said:
You know what's awesome about this, that same email address was hacked in August and Hotmail refused to allow me to reset it even after I gave them ample proof that I knew what was in my inbox. So gawker can have fun with that email (it was just for spam I signed up for), and the password that associated it was for jokes, and dead easy.
Valkyr Junkie
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numble said:
Some of their affiliates are pretty high up on the list. If they didn't have all their affiliates splintered across so many URLs they'd be in the Top 100 easy I'd imagine.
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