The Bantown hacker group hijacked hundreds of thousands of user accounts at LiveJournal. LiveJournal is an online community ("blogging") with 9,2 millions registered accounts. The hijacking was made possible by stealing "cookies" due to a series of Javascript security flaws in the LiveJournal site.
The hackers said on their site:
Q: Why they did it?
A: For the "LOLs"
Links:
- The full story: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/account_hijacki.html
- LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/
- The Bantown hacker group: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Bantown
The hackers said on their site:
In January 2006, Bantownians claimed to have used javascript vulnerabilities in LiveJournal to hijack more than 900,000 of the 1,900,000 active LiveJournal accounts. Fortified by strong cups of coffee, Bantown members created hundreds of dummy member accounts to steal delicious (chocolate-chip) cookies from 16-year-old girls. The energy from these highly nutritious cookies enabled Bantown to crack passwords and break into numerous journals of poor, malnourished LJers.
In order for the account takeovers to end, Bantown demands that Denise Paolucci post on the front page LiveJournal news that LJ has been pwned by Bantown.
Q: Why they did it?
A: For the "LOLs"
Links:
- The full story: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/01/account_hijacki.html
- LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/
- The Bantown hacker group: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Bantown
27 Mar 2006 23:04:36
There are a few people I know who use LJ just to abuse people, wish bantown would get them lol
30 May 2006 20:17:34
It's funny cos they did it for the lulz.
07 Jan 2007 09:15:38
I need to find a way to get my ass onto bantown.
07 Jan 2007 19:52:16
mongler, get mIRC and do //server -m irc.bantown.com -j #ED. that's bantown...i don't suggest messing with them though unless you can back it up, you better know lots of hacking and DDoS, otherwise you'll fail in fighting them, they're a bunch of butthurt faggots that think they're unstoppable...they're wrong though of course...i say you just hunt them down and kill them, they are spread over 4 continents. they're website is http://www.encyclopediadram... incase you didn't get it.