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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:43 PM Jul 2015

Hacking Attack Crashes New York Site After Massive Cosby Story Goes Online

Source: Slate

On Sunday night New York magazine posted a massive package about the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, 35 of whom spoke to reporter Noreen Malone—many of them in great detail—and posed for portraits that were collected in the striking cover image above. Soon thereafter, though, nymag.com became unavailable, which seemed like it might be a consequence of heavy traffic from readers looking for the Cosby piece. The Daily Dot site, however, reports that New York appears to have actually been taken out by a random hacker with a grudge against New York City itself:

A self-described hacker called ThreatKing, who says he hates New York City, claims he has successfully overwhelmed the site with a distributed denial of service attack, overloading its servers with traffic ... It's not, ThreatKing said, an attempt to silence the 35 women who have come forth to describe their alleged assault, nor the magazine that pieced their story together. Instead, he claimed, this stems entirely from his dislike of New York City, which he extends to magazines that share its name.
“Many stupid people at [sic] New York,” ThreatKing told The Daily Dot over a Skype chat. “I have not even seen the cover, LOL,” he said.

New York's site seems to have been flooded by a distributed denial-of-service attack sometime around 1 a.m. Monday and as of now is still down.

Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/27/new_york_magazine_ddos_attack_cosby_story_rest_of_site_offline.html
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Hacking Attack Crashes New York Site After Massive Cosby Story Goes Online (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2015 OP
I guess he never hummed this tune. valerief Jul 2015 #1
"I live on Cap CAD, but I love New Yawk..." Those actors desperately need 1monster Jul 2015 #3
Yeah, that one stood out to me, too. valerief Jul 2015 #5
Did the hacker sing: "Stop spreadin' the news... GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #2
coffee splurt lol! Euphoria Jul 2015 #4

GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
2. Did the hacker sing: "Stop spreadin' the news...
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 01:19 PM
Jul 2015
I'm DDoS'ing today,
And you won't read no part of it,
New York, New York (chorus: 'magazine')..."


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