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LiveJournal gets hacked - “thousands” of accounts compromised

LiveJournal gets hacked - “thousands” of accounts compromised - Some l33t hax0rz used a XSS scripting attack to get password cookies, prompting a number of changes.

Update: A funny reenactment of the hack.

2 Comments

  1. s-m wrote:

    Just think of all the LJ accounts which had previously only held historical evidence of their owner’s pathos being infected by posts such “PWNT!” and “All of yr base are belong to us”.

    Monday, January 23, 2006 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
  2. Phil Haack wrote:

    I hadn’t actually thought about that. Awesome.

    Monday, January 23, 2006 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

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