Photobucket tipped over by Turkish hacker

Channel Register ^ | 18 Jun 2008 15:37 | John Leyden

[ElkGroveDan]

Photobucket, the popular photo sharing website, became the target of a DNS hack on Tuesday.

As a result of the attack some (but not all) surfers hoping to check out pictures were involuntarily redirected to a greeting from hacker NetDeliz and a message in Turkish.

A post to Photobucket's user forum blamed the problem on "an error in our DNS hosting services". It stressed that users' personal information was not affected by the redirection.

On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect. Security experts, such as Chris Boyd of FaceTime (here), and security bloggers (here) expressed doubts about this explanation and urged the photo sharing site to issue a clearer statement about the attack.

Media relations personnel from Photbucket weren't immediately available for comment at the time of writing, but we've put in a request for a fuller explanation of the snafu and will update this article as and when it becomes available.

Last month unidentified hackers hijacked Comcast's domain for several hours, sending subscribers who wanted to access webmail to a hacker greeting site instead. The hijinks came about after miscreants changed registration information stored on comcast.net by its domain registrar, Network Solutions. ®

[ElkGroveDan]

Sorry everyone - no "aw geez guy" or "bunny pancake" on threads today, as I can't access my Photobucket library.

[JRios1968]

[DManA]

They’re probing, finding out where we are weak and experimenting with how to exploit that weakness.

[dhot]

I'm using my flickr acct until they fix it.

[skinkinthegrass]

I guess, Its back up.

[cripplecreek]

Will you settle for a wolverine with a Yooper on his butt?

[dhot]

clapter

[BJClinton]

They’re probing, finding out where we are weak and experimenting with how to exploit that weakness.

No kidding, where would we be without cat macros and pics of scantily clad co-eds.

Dear God, they'll take down icanhascheezburger.com next!

[weegee]

They have to take down the NOBAMA 2008 graphics by any means necessary.

[weegee]

There iz no ceiling cat besides CEILING CAT.

[weegee]

All of your pancake bunnies are belong to us.

[NoLibZone]

Don’t allow permissions to stay at 777 and you’ll be fine.

[WakeUpAndVote]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

So, here is a pic of a bikini blonde with a pancake on her head.

[DManA]

What better site to practice on than something nobody really cares about?

[BJClinton]

[Charles Martel]

We get signal!

[steve-b]

[retrokitten]

[GulfWar1Vet]

I was about to go postal w/out my Photobucket LoL
But it’s back up now :D Yeah, yeah, yeah!