Sun 3 Sep 2006
Rain City Guide hacked
Posted by Marlow Harris under Real Estate
[8] Comments
So weird! Rain City Guide appears to have been hacked by angry Turks.
If it disappears before you get a chance to see it, I’ve saved it on an exterior page.
–UPDATE–
Exterior page is showing an “error” message. To see page view, see Bloodhound Blog.
Here’s another real estate website hacked, apparently this time by supporters of Palestine. www.LasVegasDirect.com
What’s going on here?
– MORE –
From Inman:
A for-sale-by-owner Web site that is registered to a loan officer in Ohio also contained a cache of information about a suspected al-Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan last year and an Islamic militant movement.
Pages embedded within The For Sale By Owner Association Inc. Web site, at www.fsboa.com, contained Arabic writings attributed to Abu Musab al-Suri (al-Suri translates as “The Syrian”), who is also known as Mustafa Setmarian Nasar. Nasar was reportedly arrested in Quetta, Pakistan, in November 2005 and is rumored to be in U.S. custody, though his location remains a secret.
Alan Isham, the creator of the Web site who is a loan officer for 1st Metropolitan Mortgage in Pepper Pike, Ohio, said he hadn’t added anything to the Web site for two years and had nothing to do with the Arabic-language materials at the site. “Somebody hacked into the site,” he said. The www.fsboa.com Web site was registered in Isham’s name in 1998.
This site appears to have just been taken down.
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September 3rd, 2006 at 6:42 pm
wow – I had just thought that nothing had been posted there all day – which is weird on its own – because nothing new had come into my reader. Thanks for the tip.
–Jim
September 4th, 2006 at 12:32 am
I spend the last four hours trying to delete that damn page from my system and you go off and post the thing on your website!!! LOL!
September 4th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Well, now it’s disappeared altogether… so strange! One hears of this happening, but I never dreamed it would happen so close to home.
September 4th, 2006 at 10:02 am
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hacked website until yesterday. Who knew it would happen to a site I contribute to. Thanks for the kind words.
September 5th, 2006 at 8:38 am
When I used your link to the hacked page, my virus scanner INSTANTLY went off telling me I’d been infected… now i’m no web guru, but I’m pretty sure there’s something malicious in that hack beyond just killing their regular blog content, so I hope people aren’t going to that link and getting their computers infected with all kinds of nasty viruses. Has anyone else had similar problems?
September 5th, 2006 at 11:13 am
No problems on this end….