Photobucket’s DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

[Greyskye]

Source: ZDNet

Yesterday, Photobucket the world’s most popular photo sharing site according to Hitwise had its DNS records hijackedPhotobucket Hacked by Turkish Hacking Group to return a hacked page courtesy of the NetDevilz hacking group, a Turkish web site defacement group most widely known for its defacement of the adult video site Redtube earlier this year. Photobucket users across the world are reporting minor outages of the service and problems when trying to access their accounts, the consequence of what looks like the type of DNS records hijacking that redirected Comcast.net to a third-party domain last month.

Third-party site monitoring services indicate that the site was down for 15 minutes yesterday, from from 17:39:39 to 17:55:10, whereas according to a comment left by a Photobucket Forum Support representative, the downtime due to the propagation of the corrected DNS entries was longer :

“On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect.”


Read more: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1285

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My Photobucket account is still down, and I'm seeing lots of broken links in posts still. :(

[AspenRose]

1. This Turkish hacking group has been busy

[AlCzervik]

2. mine was down earlier this morning but it's back up. Yours might be too.

[Greyskye]

3. Nope, still dead to me.

It was dead yesterday, with simple DNS errors. Now I'm redirected to www.atspace.com. :grr:

As a matter of fact, I see a broken link in your post. Yep, photobucket. There should be a pic in my sig file as well, I'm assuming that it's currently not visible now either. I certainly can't see it! :(

Edit: And now I can see linked pictures again, but when I go to www.photobucket.com, I get redirected to http://www.resellercluster.com/. :wtf:

[Codeine]

11. Clear your cache.

That has been helping lots of users in your situation.

[onehandle]

4. Bomb Them! nt

[Eurobabe]

5. mine's working fine, even yesterday.

[ashling]

6. Mines fine

however, about a week or two ago it was posting the wrong pictures or not accepting and just putting up something already there. I had that problem for about a day

[bitchkitty]

15. AWESOME pic!

So awesome, but terrifying (an issue w/me - fear of wolves). But so freaking beautiful!

[ashling]

16. Thanks ... it was the first on my photobucket page

and what with the topic of the thread, I thought I would post it ... just think German Shephard :)

[orleans]

7. i was using mine in the middle of the night. it seemed alright then. n/t

[Ian David]

8. PhotoBucket owned by Murdoch. n/t

[Greyskye]

9. As you are using Photobucket for your pic, what exactly is your point?

:shrug:

[Ian David]

10. I'm not paying for it, and Murdoch loses money on PhotoBucket every year. n/t

[Greyskye]

12. So your original post was saying "Good job"?

I honestly don't get the point of your original post. :shrug:

[Ian David]

17. Jello has no bones. n/t

[Imagevision]

13. Try doing a system restore...

[Greyskye]

14. It finally came back for me

around 3'ish I think. No particular reason on my end - I'd cleared my cache a number of times to no effect, but it eventually started routing correctly. I'm not seeing broken links in peoples posts anymore either, so it looks like they finally got their entire system exorcised.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. What's DNS?

Gawd, I hate acronyms.

[Sentath]

19. Domain Name System

Its what keeps you from having to type the IP address (192.168.0.1 for example) for every web server you want to visit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Thank you!

[kentauros]

21. Mine's still up.

Guess I'm protected :)