Hackers Down Comcast.net — Payback for BitTorrent Woes?
As you’ve probably heard by now, an anonymous group of hackers took over the domain name of Comcast for a few hours last night. The clever group left the message, “KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST.” They also left a shout-out for somebody named VIRUS Warlock elu21 coll1er seven, whoever that is. This wasn’t a simple “let’s upload our own stuff to their site” prank, either. Somehow, the group was able to re-direct everything that comcast.net does to their own servers… including people’s e-mail. The hackers appear to have changed the Comcast DNS/WHOIS records which were pointing at a non-Comcast address, which means that they got a hold of it straight from the source, at Network Solutions, Inc. According to Comcast, everything is back to normal but some people are still reporting outages and an inability to get their @comcast.net e-mails.
Incidentally, I just tried to visit comcast.net and it didn’t go too well. The site looks to be back in the hands of the rightful owners, but no images are being displayed and it pretty much says that all of their online services are unavailable at the moment.
The site could have just been hacked for the LULS, but some are theorizing that this was done as payback for Comcast’s repeated attempts to throttle BitTorrent users. The company is notorious for lessening bandwith and even sending letters to its customers telling them to stop downloading so much.
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