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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 Malonemany of them in great detailand 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.
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
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. I guess he never hummed this tune.
1monster
(11,012 posts)3. "I live on Cap CAD, but I love New Yawk..." Those actors desperately need
accent coaches!
valerief
(53,235 posts)5. Yeah, that one stood out to me, too.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)2. Did the hacker sing: "Stop spreadin' the news...
I'm DDoS'ing today,
And you won't read no part of it,
New York, New York (chorus: 'magazine')..."
(?)
And you won't read no part of it,
New York, New York (chorus: 'magazine')..."
(?)
Euphoria
(448 posts)4. coffee splurt lol!