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Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:44 am

Anyone been to their photobucket account (or tried to view pics on here that are hosted there) this morning? It seems to be gone, redirects to atspace.com.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:55 am

No problems here. You have a virus :lol:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:56 am

Shit. :evil:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:56 am

Mine works.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:59 am

Photobucket is FUBARbucket this morning. Someone on another forum I go to said they were hacked by someone in Turkey last night. :shock:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:02 am

Works for me.. .see.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r172/oldnslow/hoover.jpg

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:07 am

Glenn wrote: Works for me.. .see.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r172/oldnslow/hoover.jpg
The pic you posted is a red X. I can't get in and if I try to post links to my pics, they come out as red X's.

[Edit:] Your link goes to a "Page cannot be displayed" page too. :wink:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:08 am

Ruffturn wrote: Glenn wrote: Works for me.. .see.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r172/oldnslow/hoover.jpg
The pic you posted is a red X. I can't get in and if I try to post links to my pics, they come out as red X's.
You got problems on your desktop.

Try another browser like Firefox.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:11 am

Glenn wrote: Try another browser like Firefox. No can do. Work PC is IE only. Must be an IE thing.

Wierd thing is that my avatar (on other forums) and my smiley guys (like this --> ) are OK. Just not my pics. Wierd, I tell ya. :shock:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:17 am

I'm using Firefox, here's a screenshot:

Server not found...

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:20 am

I can see it fine...

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:27 am

Every Photobucket link that anyone has posted today is dead, including every one in this thread. As a mater of fact, the only visible image in this whole thread is the screenshot ScottK posted at villagephotos.com

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:35 am

Mine is working.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:37 am

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1285

Quote: June 18th, 2008
Photobucket’s DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group

Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 6:27 am

Yesterday, Photobucket the world’s most popular photo sharing site according to Hitwise had its DNS records hijacked to return a hacked page courtesy of the NetDevilz hacking group, a Turkish web site defacement group most widely known for its defacement of the adult video site Redtube earlier this year. Photobucket users across the world are reporting minor outages of the service and problems when trying to access their accounts, the consequence of what looks like the type of DNS records hijacking that redirected Comcast.net to a third-party domain last month.

Third-party site monitoring services indicate that the site was down for 15 minutes yesterday, from from 17:39:39 to 17:55:10, whereas according to a comment left by a Photobucket Forum Support representative, the downtime due to the propagation of the corrected DNS entries was longer :

“On Tuesday afternoon, some users that typed in the Photobucket.com URL were temporarily redirected to an incorrect page due to an error in our DNS hosting services. The error was fixed within an hour of its discovery, but due to the nature of the problem, some users will not have access to Photobucket for a few hours as the fix rolls out. It is important to note that only a portion of Photobucket users encountered the problem and that no Photobucket content, password information or other personal information was affected by the redirect.”

The NetDevilz hacking group left the following message, that appears to have been loading from a third-party domain,Photobucket downtime netdevilz atspace.com in this case :

“… ve NeTDevilz yeniden sahnede

Bizi hatırlayan var mı ? Unutulduğumuzu düşündük ve tekrar hatırlatmaya karar verdik !
( Turkish hackers group )

ZeberuS - GeCeCi - MiLaNo - The_BeKiR - h4ckinger - SerSaK - KinSize

we are came back !
©2008 NetDevilz Co.
We’re not first,But We’re the BEST!”

The hacking group appears to have been using the hosting services of atspace.com, the web hosting service of Zetta hosting solutions, and users of Photobucket attempting to access the site with the old DNS entries are still being redirected to a default hosting ad page within atspace.com. The effect of the redirection can also be seen by taking a peek at the publicly obtainable stats for atspace.com, where the sudden peak in traffic resulting in 118,864 visitors for today came from the default ad page used in the redirection.

With the second DNS hijacking attack against a high-profile domain in the recent months, it seems that adaptive malicious parties unable to directly compromise a site will continue taking advantage of good old-fashioned DNS hijacking. At least to prove that it’s still possible even on a high-profile domain using the services of a Tier 1 domain registrar.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:39 am

I can see Glenn's stuff OK -now-, but still not mine.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:42 am

I can see everything that was posted in this thread and this work PC is running IE.
Shit, I hope the hackers didnt see the nekkid pics of my wife, LOL.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:44 am

Ruffturn wrote: I can see Glenn's stuff OK -now-, but still not mine.

It will take a while for the corrected DNS entries to propogate to the rest of the world.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:48 am

damitboy wrote: I can see everything that was posted in this thread and this work PC is running IE.
Shit, I hope the hackers didnt see the nekkid pics of my wife, LOL. Quick, e-mail them to us all so that they'll be safe. :wink:

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:59 am

damitboy wrote: No problems here. You have a virus :lol:
The compassion is overwhelming.

Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:02 am

Ruffturn wrote: damitboy wrote: I can see everything that was posted in this thread and this work PC is running IE.
Shit, I hope the hackers didnt see the nekkid pics of my wife, LOL. Quick, e-mail them to us all so that they'll be safe. :wink:

:lol:

chickengeorge wrote: The compassion is overwhelming.

I can feel the love. Or not.