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Google blog hacked!

googleblog.blogspot.com — My friend aim's me: i HACKED GOOGLEBLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I don't believe him. Sure enough, it's hacked. But how do I know HE did it? Well....he added a special note for me. How did he do it? Some good old password guessing. Wanna know the pass? Let's just say it had something to do with their lovely rival M$.

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  • sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -19/+9LOL thats funny
    • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50Screenie: http://flickr.com/photos/timdorr/119179005/
    • sunnyboy06, on 10/12/2007, -62/+7DO NOT DIGG THIS STORY AND SUPPORT HIS ACTIONS.
    • cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11The blog's gone now.
    • funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6timdorr, I think I see a smallorange in that flickr pic.
    • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Gotta get in the shameless plug while I still can :P
    • EyeDye, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Just before it went down...
      http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=3/8600172831.png&s=x11
    • cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2And now it's back up....modified of course.
    • hater2win, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3http://natmaster.com/google_blog_hacked/conversation.php

      Link to the conversation.
    • dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1well, the site's back up. i'd like to see someone else try to do this again...
    • geekThing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If he just somehow managed to register a new account with the same name, how did he manage to know/guess the previous password?
    • phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0VERY doubtful your friend "guessed" a password. I personally think hes looking for his 15 minutes of fame, and apparently he got it. It got frontpaged.

      In that conversation that you linked below, your "friend" didn't want to change anything in the account. This could be that hes a nice to google, or someone else did it and hes lying. I personally think he didn't do it. I think google knows that a little bit more than password guessing was going on and made some changes...
    • ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Back Up

      "Update: We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad."

      So much for hacking.
  • natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25UPDATE: Google works fast, my friend is now having trouble logging into blogger with ANY account.
    • sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -16/+12I wouldnt be surprised if your friend got hired by google.

      But thats just a thought, and i wouldnt be surprised if they called the police either (not that they would).
    • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Nah, I don't think they would consider someone still in school that only exhibited some minor hacking skills to get this done. A lot of it is the fault of someone at Google, really. They don't all have PhD's :P
    • carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1timdorr, WHT and digg, lol small world.
    • cheesy_1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2And even if they did all have PhDs just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know everything about everything. :-)
    • treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2okay, i'm not your friend natmaster, and google's not going to hire me for something so simple. maybe one day i'll earn my way in though.
    • DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, in my experience with all the PhD's that I work with around here, having a PhD means that you know nothing about everything!
  • ryanchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8Oh just tell us the damn password... They've had to of changed it already...
    • estvir, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8he doesn't know their password, he simply registered a new account with the same un.

      read please.
    • ryanchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I did, at the time that was not on there. Check some of the screen shots people have posted.
  • Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -16/+9Hehe props to him woulda been better if he posted something a bit more interesting :) like an anti RIAA banner or anti DOJ
    • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Anti Department of Justice?

      Yes, because supporting music piracy and supporting terrorism are now the same thing.
  • sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This shot up to Diggs front page in 11 minutes haha
    • Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7More like 9 :P i was looking on kevinrose.com and i saw this and i was like wow then i digg it and next time i refresh the main page its on here o.O
    • MetalRemains, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2ya that was quick. I wonder how long will that blog stay up? I'm guessing.. 15minutes until they pull it.
  • omenmedia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8don't tell me, all this time the password was "billgatessux"?
  • AllanG, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Poster is full of it. According to the replaced page : The username was giving a 404, so I tried registering a new blog with it. Surprisingly, it worked.
  • BigBadHoss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3looks like a dumb thing to do to me. damned meddling kids!!!
  • georgehuff, on 10/12/2007, -15/+0Wow.
  • BluParadox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I say it's BS that he hacked google, the post on their blog seems to indicate that someone just noticed that they deleted it and registered in their place...
  • kryogenix, on 10/12/2007, -25/+6OMG HACKED BY CHINESE!
  • vyoming, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45I had to actually check the URL twice to actually beleive that this story is true
    • dekkerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It showed up in the RSS feed as well. Pretty funny.
  • harism, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1wheeeee, hacking is cool!-D
  • blazerblvd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1According to the blog, it was returning a 404. Some Blogger system problem.
  • mrlayance2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31Don't ***** off Google, they will find you with Google Maps!
  • usurp, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9hehe watch them ban u from using google search
  • StickWST, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4 Hahaha! Thats great!
  • davs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9i wonder if he was dumb enough to use his real name and university...
    • bushhatesblacks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15well, if he is telling the truth about it returning a 404 and registering the subdomain, he has done nothing illegal
    • treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1that's right. thanks :)
  • TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6wow its been nearly half an hour and the blog is still hacked....id love to know what the password has to do with microsoft
    • Joshua, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Still not fixed... and I too would like to know what the password is.
  • nixcraft, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2LOL I am worried about my blogger account
  • sufferingant, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2OWNED?
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19It appears, by your "friend's" own admission that the blog wasn't hacked... That it was somehow misplaced or purged from the database and he re-registered the name with blogspot.

    I would like you to explain to all of us how this constitutes "hacking" in any way, shape, or form...?

    By the way, natmaster, your description of the link reads like an IRC chat in 1998. Thanks for the nostalgia.
  • blackax, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2and right now that kid is dead!!!
  • aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10That is hilarious. Juvenile, but hilarious. If they fix the blog, here is a link: http://frostyle.servehttp.com/pictures/google_blog.gif
  • eviscerator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7guessing a password hardly qualifies as hacking, still quite funny though..
    • tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, bruteforcing is also guessing, but instead of guessing yourself, the program is doing it for you. But whatever. *shrug*
    • MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2its actually callec cracking.
  • thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2GO UT AUSTIN!!!
  • harism, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0And I always wondered why it was so hard to write in english. Arrrrrr ;)
  • thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Go Longhorns!!!!
  • toadster, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Why hack and ruin something like this?
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2These comments read like an even more retarded Fark.com.
  • TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2new post...links to a cache

    i still dont get it...the hacker guy si acting like he accidentally hacked google's blog....just how did it all go down?
    • flagrant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The page says he just saw that the blog was giving a 404 not found so he registered the googleblog name. He didn't hack anything. Someone just screwed up.
  • AllanG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12A history of the google hack : http://grinshtein.com/misc/googlehacked.html
  • lillydreams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This isn't really a hack so much as jumping on an opportunity. I agree with some of the other posters above, it looks like "Trey" just decided to register a new blogger account with the same username as the google one, and it worked. Once again an overuse of the word "hack."
  • darkinfero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4we know soon enought google will take action and it will be in the front page of digg again

    hey kid google is going to have tons of fun with you
  • TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6A simple google search turns up the Hackers myspace account! IANL, but I think he might need one!

    http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1876559
  • nugge7, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2lmao. GOOWNED!
  • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.lazykarma.com/ is his site


    ya and all his whois info is there haha I wonder what google will do?????
    • Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5To see the real site that is under construction check out http://www.lazykarma.com/index.php (hacked)!
    • Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6LOL WE KILLED HIS SITE!
      Internal Server Error
      The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

      Please contact the server administrator, webadmin@kundenserver.de and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

      More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

      Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1lol
    • treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3blah. actually my site going down was me trying to do apache redirects (and failing at it) since i didn't want my upcoming layout leaked, but good guess ;)
  • natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11At request of the hacker, I have put our AIM conversation up on my new site, unaltered (except the password to google).
    Check it out:
    http://natmaster.com/conversation.php
    • redrum781, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1Stop trying to impress people and gain notoriety.
    • lillydreams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6From reading the chat, it looks like Trey told you one thing, but actually did another. It looks like his hacking was just regestering an account. In the chat, he pumps it up to physically sneaking into the googleblog and getting rid of all the evidence and making it his own. In actuality, it looks like he just had a new account, lame layout and all.
    • natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3For organizational purposes, I made this entire event it's own directory.

      New link: natmaster.com/google_blog_hacked
    • treyjp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hahah, that was entertaining. thanks ;)
  • garraeth, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Not a hack...omg, hire someone from SiteBeater if you'd like a real web hacker...:rolleyes:
  • TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Wow. If I ever did something like that I would,

    1. Access free wifi somewhere where there is no camera.

    2. Make SURE my laptop had NO personal info on it.

    3. Start a NEW BLOGGER ACCOUNT!!!!

    4. Copy the whole Old Blogger site, and add something cool instead of what he did. Like. Headline:::::::::: We are now offering free 10 MB/s down 2 MB/S up wifi to the whole United States by December through a combo of Satelite internet and special software that will let your wifi card pick it up!!!!! Imagine seeing that on Google Blog!!!!!!!!

    Eric Wilson
  • estvir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5it's not 'hacking,' at all. i'm fairly certain registering a new accnt or resetting a password would not be classed as hacking.
  • Steelgunner, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1This is kinda lame. You hacked google blog..not google.
  • Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Its down i got a dashboard error

    yep and nows its 404 some one register it again

    i win i got the first its down message ftw!
  • GeneralFailure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They fixed it. Googl0wned!
  • TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1And they are down!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Eric Wilson
  • derkampfe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1its down, as of now.
  • Yankees368, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1its down now
  • johnbillion, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1it's gone dudes :(
  • penguinix, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1It's down now
  • derkampfe, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1sorry, page was acting weird, bury this.
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