Hacking Millions To Get To One

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Hacking Millions To Get To One

August 10. 2009

It has been revealed, the massive hack targeting Twitter, Facebook and Google, were launched from a disgruntled group in Eastern Europe, angry regarding a political blogger/professor's blog, which they sought to knock off the internet.

As such, they waged a sustained DDOS attack that affected several hundred million people, to gain revenge against one man. The jurisdictional Eastern European government needs to lock them up or turn them over for extradition, as their conduct has caused widespread damage, financial loss and great inconvenience.

As someone whose websites have been hacked in an unrelated incident, with the misconduct coming from individuals apart of a sick cult known as Kabbalah, I find it appalling how little hackers care for other people's time and money, to the point they will target an entire server or network, to harm an innocent person, over some perceived problem, real or imagined, who expresses opinions they dislike.

It is the height of selfishness and insanity, to inconvenience scores of people, in bids at getting at one person, who could care less about your ego trip. It just makes the public hate hackers, not viewing them as heroes.

Twitter Down: It's an Online Attack on One Political Blogger

Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter

DDoS Attackers Continue Hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google

Saturday, August 08, 2009 7:50 AM PDT - The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that knocked out Twitter for hours and affected other sites like Facebook, Google's Blogger, and LiveJournal on Thursday continued all day Friday and may persist throughout the weekend.

In its latest update, posted to a discussion forum of its third-party developers at 11 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Friday, Twitter reports it's still fighting the attacks.

"The DDoS attack is still ongoing, and the intensity has not decreased at all," wrote Chad Etzel, from Twitter's application development platform support team...

According to news reports and information from companies affected, the attacks appear directed at silencing a blogger in the country of Georgia who has been critical of Russia's actions and policies toward that neighboring country.

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