Has AA been hacked??

J North · « **on:** 17 Nov 2003, 10:13 pm »

Can't seem to get in.

Black Sreen comes up and some wierd file starts downloading.

Anyone have a clue?

PS: sorry if this is an inappropriate post, I did not know where else to ask.

I find both AA & AC very useful and yet mutually exclusive.

Thanks

BeeBop · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 10:17 pm »

Looks like it's been hacked. I looked at the source for the page and it is set to run a Marilyn Manson flash movie. Real audiophile, that Marilyn Manson.

JohnR · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 10:25 pm »

"xester was here. DigitalCrime Group."

J North · « **Reply #3 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 10:57 pm »

Looks like the AA home page is back to normal.

What is up with those hackers anyway?

PhilNYC · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 11:03 pm »

I still get the black screen, but a buddy in Long Island says he gets to AA fine...

J North · « **Reply #5 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 11:15 pm »

Phil,

you may need to hit the "Refresh" button on your browser . . .

PhilNYC · « **Reply #6 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 11:17 pm »

Quote from: J North

Phil,

you may need to hit the "Refresh" button on your browser . . .

Nope...I've hit refresh a couple of times and still it comes up black...

J North · « **Reply #7 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 11:28 pm »

Now there's a picture of some guy on the home page!
Nothing else.

AA really needs to talk to their Web Hosting Provider.

If I understand correctly, they were discussing upgrading their systems soon. Maybe someone forgot to plug a hole.

PhilNYC · « **Reply #8 on:** 17 Nov 2003, 11:33 pm »

Quote from: J North

Now there's a picture of some guy on the home page!
Nothing else.

Huh...now its working fine for me...

J North · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Nov 2003, 12:17 am »

Back to normal here as well.

Upstateaudio · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Nov 2003, 04:46 am »

The guy's face is still

there for me.

BeeBop · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Nov 2003, 11:51 am »

The reason some are still seeing the hacker's work while others are not might be cacheing being done by their ISP. ISPs will cache popular web pages (store them) so that they don't have to pay bandwidth charges to keep getting the same pages over and over from the same web site. This also speeds things up for their users. These ISPs will have different cache refresh rates so some will see the older version longer than ohers.