PowerColor Site Hacked Again

Jimmy 2004 · Feb 10, 2008

One or two readers may have noticed the story about the PowerColor news site being hacked last week, and it looks like it's happened again. This time things seem much more sinister though - when you visit the news page from PowerColor's global site you are redirected to an image of the fire in Southern Germany last week on ImageShack (below) with a statement below in German which translates as "We will show whole Germany... for that must you pay... Fuck you Germany." It looks like this is the work of a group labelling themselves as CMD-TEAM, although why an American graphics card manufacturer is being targeted is beyond me. This is exactly the same page as was hacked last time, http://www.powercolor.com/Global/News.asp, although a very different message it would seem.

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niko084 · Feb 10, 2008

Wow.... I think somebody has access to their web server.... Previous employee? Odds are someone has a grudge...

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 10, 2008

Wonder what the german connection is? mebbe the ceo of powercolor is a nazi war crminal or summat?

No offense meant to anybody,just fishing for ideas.

derFeef · Feb 10, 2008

Its not "Dafur" its "dafür" - which means "for that"
However, it looks like more and more sites are getting hacked. First stage6 and now powercolor again.

Jimmy 2004 · Feb 10, 2008

derFeef said:
Its not "Dafur" its "dafür" - which means "for that"
However, it looks like more and more sites are getting hacked. First stage6 and now powercolor again.

Thanks for clearing that up - makes more sense now. I was hoping that the translation software would be smart enough to allow for things like that, evidently not. Computers are no match for humans when it comes to effective translation

Nitrogliserin · Feb 10, 2008

it should be a random hack to deliver their message.

derFeef · Feb 10, 2008

Jimmy 2004 said:
Thanks for clearing that up - makes more sense now. I was hoping that the translation software would be smart enough to allow for things like that, evidently not. Computers are no match for humans when it comes to effective translation

You are welcome. The german isnt good either and the reason could be its written by Turkish people (or made so it looks like that). Now I notice my enlgish is bad too :laugh:

ktr · Feb 10, 2008

Even stage6.com's site got hacked yesterday. What is the world [wide web] coming too!

Polaris573 · Feb 11, 2008

I think they're upset about a fire in Ludwigshafen where sixty Turks were injured and nine were killed? Why they would hack a site because of that I don't understand though.

More Info: Apparently many Turks believe this was a hate crime committed against them. Who knows what Powercolor has to do with that. Most likely it was just an easy target of opportunity

http://www.bz-berlin.de/BZ/news/2008/02/05/eltern-warfen-kind-aus-fenster/eltern-warfen-kind-aus-fenster,geo=3677148.html

jurrasstoil · Feb 11, 2008

tigger69 said:
Wonder what the german connection is? mebbe the ceo of powercolor is a nazi war crminal or summat?

No offense meant to anybody,just fishing for ideas.

Well, i'm german and the german used by the hackers is actually pretty bad. And I don't think it is targeted at powercolor.

Anyways...

Seems like the powercolor website is the new imageshack, rapidshare or myspace

woozers · Feb 11, 2008

Seems that some people are jealous. :shadedshu

beyond_amusia · Feb 11, 2008

Maybe its a Jewish hacker? :rolleyes:

PowerColor needs a more secure server.

btarunr · Feb 11, 2008

How neatly they've mentioned their email addresses, can't their IP be backtraced?

Hope PowerColor changes its hosting company. BTW, F*** you CMD-Team :nutkick:

beyond_amusia · Feb 11, 2008

Yeah, the IP should be trackable.

happita · Feb 12, 2008

Dam, Powercolor must have some bad luck =P

Jimmy 2004 · Feb 12, 2008

Looks like it's fixed now

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