Macrumorslive hacked during Macworld 09 Keynote!

January 7, 2009

So I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Macrumorslive.com got hacked while it was giving live updates of the Keynote.  Too bad because they had a pretty cool Ajaxian feed update thing going on.  I’m willing to bet that was step number one towards opening themselves up to hackers.  The first hack that I noticed was one stating “STEVE JOBS DIED.”  Macrumorslive responded that they didn’t know how that got into the feed and Steve Jobs did not die.  Sure enough a couple minutes later there were tons of garbage posts, some profane, some just dumb.  If you want to see what was posted, techcrunch posted some of the feed…

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