Posted on 11/09/2016 10:03:03 AM PST by Fitzy_888
Changing my tag line in honor of this.
People who believe in our Constitution don’t do things to curtail other people’s right to free speech. That’s for so-called liberals to do.
4chan guys / Anon hacked them.
They HATE Hillary.
UPDATE 11/9/2016 1:00PM ET
We have now come to believe it is possible that the hacker may have been able to gain access to certain member information on our server, including: Usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses. Passwords were not as easily accessible, and at this point we do not know if it was possible for the hacker to access them. (Further note that passwords on DU are “hashed” and saved in a cryptographically scrambled format rather than as plain text, so if the hacker could access a member’s password information they would not have direct access to the password itself — only to the hash.)
We can say for certain that donor data, such as credit card numbers or addresses, were not compromised because that information is handled by PayPal and never passes through to our servers.
We are not going to bring our website back online until we believe that we are no longer vulnerable to attack and our members’ user information is secure. Unfortunately we do not know how long this process will take, and it could possibly take days.
We will be posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
Insert MS DOS 3.3 Boot Disk, Turn Server On.
Type Command: "Format C: /S" (No quotes) and hit the ENTER Key.
That'll do it!
there is no hack lol!
Worst part of the night was not being able to watch their world fall apart in real time.
Oh, c’mon. I’m supposed believe some low-information, poorly-educated, “deplorable” hacked the mighty DU. How is that even conceivable?!? /s
Good point. If they ever find out who did it, it’s probably one of their own upset at the community at large over all the lies they told each other about how Wonder Woman was going to smash the Nazis.
That’s true, too! Probably no hack. They just pulled the plug on their own to stop the public meltdown on display and called it a “hack” later on.
A can of gas and some matches is the only way to fix that cesspool.
You forgot to FDISK first... you have to remove all the partitions too.
First thing I thought.
Years ago I worked for a company whose headquarters on the east coast was flooded by a hurricane. We have to document everything by hand for two weeks. This was a big coporation. I thought then, Why didn't they have their database mirrored in another geographic region?
Yep, I sure did forget! Damn, I'm slipping in my old age!
Reminds me of election night 2002 when someone managed to put a “All your Senate are belong to us” graphic on DU.
DU was all Hillary all the time. They kicked out the Bernie supporters. Now there is no Hillary, so is there any use for DU anymore? How do they rebuild their own viewer base?
If it’s a real hack, that’s what I would guess. The “God Emperor” meme was huge on Reddit and the Chans
Why would someone hack DU? The comedy would have been unending last night.
or if remotely to a Linux server:
rm -rf /*
and on your DB server
DROP DATABASE [whatever the name is]
rm -rf /dev
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