NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims 70
wiredmikey writes "Following a shutdown of its 'NVIDIA Developer Zone,' earlier this week after the online community for developers had been hacked, the graphics chip maker on Friday also shut down its online store. The group of hackers behind the attack, going by the handle of 'The Apollo Project,' made mention of the claimed compromise in its original post exhibiting its successful attack against the NVIDIA Developer Zone site. While the company has shut down the online store, it has not acknowledged that a successful attack has taken place. 'NVIDIA has suspended operation of the NVIDIA Gear Store (store.nvidia.com) as a precaution, following confirmed attacks on several of our other sites,' read a statement posted on the site posted. The claimed attackers wrote, 'We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.'"
disguisting corporations? (Score:1, Insightful)
target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.
So.... they pick nVidia, and NOT Google, Apple, Sony, or Microsoft?
Seriously? nVidia isn't perfect, but they don't seem remotely as evil as the above four.
Re:Vigilante circus. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Vigilante circus. (Score:4, Insightful)
1-what crime?
2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?
Despite that I'll be modded into oblivion for this. This isn't any different that what OWS protesters have been doing for months on end, and it hasn't been any different than what the student protesters have been doing in Quebec have been doing for months on end. In both cases they've been going off the deep end and getting more violent, believing that "corporations" or "schools" or "wall street" need to be brought to justice for crimes against who knows what. I'm sure the grievances are very valid in their minds, and whatever they tell themselves, or are being told by whatever professor or community organizer or handler is telling them to believe, but that doesn't make it so.
As for the question of "who died and made them the long arm of the law?" Well that's obvious, they made themselves the long arm of the law. This is the pure anti-corporatism of the left.
Re:Vigilante circus. (Score:4, Insightful)
1-what crime?
Making profit.
2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?
Nobody died and they aren't the law.
This isn't vigilantism, this is simple defacement and theft. Vigilantism is motivated by a desire for justice, and a perceived indifference or selective enforcement of laws. They haven't stated what crimes NVidia should be held accountable for; which means there probably aren't any. Some examples of what 'proper' vigilantism might be motivated by would be illegal dumping of toxic waste, mistreatment of their workforce, manipulation of stock prices, colluding with other manufacturers to fix the prices of key information commodities, or excerting monopoly powers over a market.
Re:Sh*t happens... (Score:4, Insightful)
So NVIDIA doesn't support your preferred OS in exactly the way you'd like, and therefore they deserve to have their systems broken into?