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Tesla site and Twitter account hacked

techcrunch.com

16 points by gabhubert 11 years ago · 8 comments

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oskarpearson 11 years ago

The original Hacker News posting on this was incorrectly flagged when the site temporarily came back online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439486

meowface 11 years ago

https://twitter.com/rootworx/status/592126475689545729

>Receiving reports that Julius Kivimaki hacked Tesla and Elon Musk's Twitter accounts and websites by Social engineering NetworkSolutions

NetworkSolutions has a history of falling victim to social engineering attempts and scams.

Also, Julius Kivimaki is one of the alleged leaders of Lizard Squad.

jedisct1 11 years ago

A records (IP addresses) were changed, but also MX records:

https://gist.github.com/jedisct1/13cd60ba702d6d58053c

Mails sent to @teslamotors.com were hijacked as well.

End-to-end encryption is badly needed.

nodesocket 11 years ago

Yikes. I wonder if they were running a CMS (Wordpress, Drupal).

heimatau 11 years ago

We can all be hacked.

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