Notorious Group OurMine Hacks TechCrunch

Prominent technology blog TechCrunch -- which is often cited on Slashdot -- has become the latest victim of the OurMine hacking group. The notorious group gained access to Seattle-based writer Devin Coldewey's account, and posted the following message earlier today: "Hello Guys, don't worry we are just testing techcrunch security, we didn't change any passwords, please contact us." The post was then promoted as a ticker, the top banner in red and as the main story on TechCrunch's front page. BetaNews adds: The OurMine website says that the group offers "top notch vulnerability assessment", so it's possible that the hack was little more than a PR stunt touting for business. It did not take TechCrunch long to notice and remove the story (and presumably change a series of passwords...) but the site is yet to issue a statement about what has happened.

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[Anonymous Coward]

By bullshit, such as this

Let me be the first to congratulate you on the hack of Anonymous Coward's account!

Pi

[FST]

This is slashSlashdot story 314159.

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[Szeraax]

Yes, but the real question is whether or not I should hold out for story 3141592 or 3141593...

Yes, no.

[Frosty Piss]

The notorious group gained access to Seattle-based writer Devin Coldewey's account, and posted the following message earlier today: "Hello Guys, don't worry we are just testing techcrunch security, we didn't change any passwords, please contact us...

So they fished a single user's account and by the way, "contact us"? Yeah, no . Coldewey, if he actually has any other access than to submit stories for editorial review (you know, like I do at Slashdot), needs to have his account douched, but beyond that, this is most likely just some "leet" little boys playing on the 'puter.

If it turns out to be something more than almost nothing, I would be surprised.

Windows 10 hack bypasses UAC

[khz6955]

And yet the slashdot moderators don't consider this post [slashdot.org] to be relevant on a technology site.

UAC bypass attack on Windows 10 allows malicious DLL loading [helpnetsecurity.com]

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[Megol]

Thanks for informing us you don't understand the word "notorious". As we all was wondering if there was something AC didn't know, didn't have an opinion about and didn't use as an excuse to post irrelevant crap. Now we know the answer to all three: 1) yes 2) no 3) no.

TrollCrunch

[Jesse Enjaian]

Oh-em-gee. Good thing there was a news story telling people about it or the only thing people would've noticed was the marginal less spam on the Internet.