#WatchDesk Hacker Ethical Spectrum Goes On Celebrity Website Defacement Spree March 11, 2014 – The hacker Ethical Spectrum, who made headlines in February for breaching the system of Finnish game developer Supercell, has defaced the websites of American celebrities Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, and Chelsea Handler. Although the hackers original attack around March 8th replaced the websites with a popular dancing Internet meme and the message “Hacked. For more security [e-mail address]”, they have since defaced the websites again and posted the e-mail address of Greg Patterson, the COO of ground(ctrl), a web development firm specializing in celebrity clients. In previous cases the hacker has reached out to companies and offered to secure their systems, hacking the systems only after the offer is ignored. This suggests to researchers that Ethical Spectrum offered security services to ground(ctrl) and hacked the sites after being ignored. bit.ly/1eoisXN
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:05:02 +0000
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