Macrumors Live got Hacked
// January 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // Personal/Blog News
Apple fanboys and MacRumors.com devotees were greeted by an unpleasant surprise just a few minutes ago when the MacRumorsLive webfeed got hacked, displaying the message “STEVE JOBS JUST DIED:”
Moments later, the page updated with “Retraction on Stave Jobs comment…we don’t know how that got in our feed.
The popular apple fan-site MacRumors.com was providing up to the minute coverage on the MacWorld 2009 Keynote address, when the page started displaying profanity and all-CAPS nonsense and 4chan slang.
Screenshots of the initial onslaught follow (Warning: NSFW, profanity):
Shortly thereafter both MacRumorsLive.com and MacRumors.com were down.
UPDATE:
as of 1:29pm EST, MacRumors.com was back online with the following post:
Our MacRumorsLive keynote coverage was hacked today, inserting inappropriate content into the text and photo feeds. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to restore our services. The hack appears to be limited to the MacRumorsLive servers so forum accounts should be safe.
We’ll continue Macworld Expo coverage on an ongoing basis this week, and will report on Apple’s announcements shortly.









