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Post by Ten Kabuto on Aug 13, 2005 14:26:37 GMT -8
I bet he googled for a hacking prog. -.-
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Post by Spektral on Aug 13, 2005 21:38:48 GMT -8
OMG this is what happened. =P
One of the crackers added Thom's original account: necronadim The cracker than acted friendly and asked Thom about his pets and what their names were. Thom answered, unaware of the fact that his security question was "what is your first pets name?".
The cracker then entered the names in the SQ and gained access to Thom's MSN. Then he IMed Greg/Moose (co-owner of ZD) asking to admin his account so he can check something. Greg, thinking this was the real Thom, complied and admined the original nadim account.
Then, the two crackers, owners of c3designs, destroyed the forum, posed as Synth-X, blamed it on Greg, and flamed out a few of the ZD members.
That's basically all there is to know, if you had Thom's old email account (necronadim@hotmail.com) on your list, block it. =P
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Post by Marty on Aug 13, 2005 22:56:02 GMT -8
Interesting. The only thing I wanna know is why Thom would be giving out his pet's names to someone who just appeared asking for them. If that happened to me, they'd get blocked.
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Post by Jimmy on Aug 14, 2005 8:39:42 GMT -8
He may have thought he was just being friendly.
And thats.....well I guess that craXor [couldn't resist] wasn't too dumb, too think of that, although spektral made it sound easy.
And why would that greg guy admin him? Couldn't he have just done it himself?
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Post by CD on Aug 14, 2005 8:59:11 GMT -8
Yeah, he could of since Moose (Greg) can code, but Greg trusts Thom. That was it.
And apparently what I heard first was wrong. Thanks for the details spektral.
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Post by ShadowyOne on Aug 14, 2005 10:13:39 GMT -8
Hm. Pretty sneaky.
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Post by CD on Aug 14, 2005 11:16:08 GMT -8
Yes, yes it was. STupid MSN questions.
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Post by Spektral on Aug 15, 2005 10:33:41 GMT -8
I would have never thought of the security question thing. MSN is stupid by actually telling you what the question is when you request for it.
Thom couldn't have admined himself, he left ZD, and since everybody trusts the guy like they known him for years (which in this case he has), he thought Thom just wanted to extract a code or somthing. Oh well it doesn't matter, that moron just made ZD better by bringing Thom back. XDD
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Post by CD on Aug 15, 2005 10:37:08 GMT -8
Yeah XD And if they actually deleted any content, big BIG law suit on them. Cause, posted content is copyright ZD and PB (believe Pb too). They are destroying copyrighted material, and their IP is logged by the Security Log (which Morgoth could of checked). But yeah, the hackers screwed themselves over.
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Post by CD on Aug 15, 2005 10:37:41 GMT -8
So cruel... yet so freaking hilarious. XD
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