Comcast hacked
2008-06-01 14:51:45.347356+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Late last week I was getting bounces to a few Comcast email accounts, and wondered what was going on. Apparently a couple of kids took down Comcast for kicks, and then gave Wired an anonymous interview:
"The situation has kind of blown up here, a lot bigger than I thought it would," says Defiant, a 19-year-old man whose first name is James. "I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad."
They've fingered Network Solutions as the culprit, a charge that company, as it has every time it's been the weak link in the past decade and a half, has denied. The crackers also claim that when they did get control over the domain, they called up Comcast's technical contact and told him, but that he blew them off:
"If he wasn't such a prick, he could have avoided all of that," says EBK. "I wasn't even really thinking. Plus, I'm just so mad at Comcast. I'm tired of their shitty service."
As a former Comcast subscriber, I sympathize.