Bolt_Gundam510 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 by ErnestoApparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site.It started out on Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.The comments on Reddit are only speculation so far. Based on the username, which was apparently “webReadOnly”, it might not have been setup correctly, or someone could have found another way to delete the content form the site. Another possibility is that the RIAA themselves removed the content temporarily. This would seem unlikely, as a better solution would be to take it entirely offline to fix the bigger problem. While they could fix a small vulnerability like this in a matter of seconds, the chances are it’s not an isolated problem.As pointed out by Haywire, playing around with the urls a bit can return some funny results. It is pretty easy to make the RIAA link to The Pirate Bay for example.For now it sure does look like all the content has been wiped from the RIAA homepage. Let’s hope they have backups, or not.Source: Torrent Freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 ahahahaha thats funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 The RIAA site is back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigabyte89 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 lol.. OWNED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mivanx77 Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 They had it coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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