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Digital Camera Magazine forums hacked?

Posted: January 27th, 2009 | Author: James | Filed under: The Outside World | Tags: , , | 4 Comments »

Looks like the forums for Digital Camera magazine have been hacked.  Just received this in my email…

An administrator of Digital Camera Magazine Community has sent the following email
to all users in the Everyone forum group.  

Sent From: admin
Subject: Attention faggots
__________________________________

Your retarded administrators don’t understand that repairing damage is meaningless unless you first fix the problem. This forum is now 4chan’s bitch, and we shall do with it as we please. Since your administrators are completely incompetent we have decided to ban them, as well as change their passwords; we’re sure you won’t mind. We went easy on you this first time, prepare for the worst.

-Anonymous

[Update] It took a few days but the site eventually did come back up with this explanation.

Welcome back to the site. You may be aware that we recently closed dcmag.co.uk following a malicious attack from unknown users. These users accessed an administration interface that allowed them to send an offensive email to our registered users. The DCMag team apologises for any offence this may have caused you.

Subscribers to the print magazines Digital Camera and Digital Camera World do not have their banking details and subscriber information held on this site. Your site registration passwords remain encrypted, but if you would like to change your password here’s how to change your password.

At least nothing too sensitive fell into the hands of the attackers.  Hopefully this will teach Digital Camera Magazine a lesson.