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Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked by 4Chan, attackers release personal details of users

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In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a "one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites" which recently published private information of Sarah Palin's private email.

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{"commentId":4543913,"authorDomain":"tigerblade"}

Moreover, it’s also worth pointing out that the passwords were stored unencrypted

They stored the users' passwords in plaintext. Awesome work on the admin side there, fellas. Bravo. I'm not going to say they had it coming, because it's the users who were hurt by this and not the admin team, but c'mon.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#1 - Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:42 AM EST
{"commentId":4546341,"authorDomain":"torabu"}

LMAO, UNENCRYPTED? Wow, that is absolutely ridiculous.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:52 PM EST
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Unencrypted passwords?  You have got to be kidding me.

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  • 1 vote
Reply#3 - Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:37 AM EST
{"commentId":4665373,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}

Wow.  Major duh!

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  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sun Jan 4, 2009 11:06 PM EST
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lol, its is a bit funny

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Reply#5 - Sun Jan 4, 2009 11:55 PM EST
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