Website hacking and hijacking reaches a new low

Gargs · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 02:04 AM

Takes a seriously twisted script kiddie to want to do this.

As reported by Fox News...

Quote:

Hackers Flood Epilepsy Web Forum With Flashing Lights

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Unknown miscreants had a good time two weekends ago when they posted hundreds of flashing animated images onto discussion boards hosted by the Landover, Md.-based Epilepsy Foundation.

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"I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak," RyAnne Fultz, who has epilepsy, told Wired News about her reaction to viewing one of the images on March 23.

Fultz's 11-year-old son walked over and closed the browser window after about 10 seconds. Fortunately, she suffered nothing more than a bad headache.

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While this might make for a funny South Park episode, so was the fetus eating/stem cell episode. But to do it for real is just shameful.

Link to article: FOXNews.com - Hackers Flood Epilepsy Web Forum With Flashing Lights - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

akabaloo · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 04:30 AM

People these days...

Fischig · #3 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 09:01 AM

That's horrible.

FuzzyLogik · #4 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 09:56 AM

I thought people did that a few years ago as well :P

Flow · #5 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 10:20 AM

That’s just plain bullshit! They wouldn’t think it was so funny if someone from their family suffered from seizers. It’s no joke, someone from my family had seizers and the only sign he was having one was apnea (he stopped breathing). Sorry for the rant, it just hit me personally.

DominiKing · #6 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 10:54 AM

don't be sorry Flow, this is a serious subject. You can't do things like that on a place that's meant for people with this condition to go to. If it's true this could've killed someone and we wouldn't know unless they found someone dead with that page in front of em.

I agree it would make a funny South Park episode (like Cartman getting AIDS, it's really not funny but I guess it is on SP) but this is real life and you shouldn't be messing with sh!t like that.

Pacmeng · #7 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 11:52 AM

DSR · #8 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 12:01 PM

That's fucking disgusting.

Fischig · #9 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 12:19 PM

Yeah don't be sorry Flow, thats just horrible.

ArmadonRK · #10 (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 08:43 PM

I hope they find the jackasses responsible, and they better get hit with a lot more than just charges for hacking/internet crime, whatever it's called these days.

It was blatantly malignant, anyone with half a brain knows the kind of damage that could cause and they should be punished accordingly.

It's sickening and I hope they go away for a hell of a long time.