TechCrunch Hacked?

15 Responses to “TechCrunch Hacked?”

1. Young on January 27th, 2010 12:39 am

   TechCrunch is so popular to get hacked, there are always some hackers like to hack some big websites.

2. Chester on January 27th, 2010 12:42 am

   This just proves to show that no one is exempted from these hackers. It is our responsibility to take precautionary measures.

3. Lakhyajyoti saikia on January 27th, 2010 2:10 am

   It is a great blog..So heckers are interested to hack a great site like Tech crunch

4. Free Money Income on January 27th, 2010 4:39 am

   @chester

   Yeah, sad to say no one is exempted from those hackers. Glad that techcrunch site is back again.

5. Dana @ Blogging Update on January 27th, 2010 6:56 am

   Yup, it is interesting to find out how and why so we can learn from it.

6. bee on January 27th, 2010 2:10 pm

   Oww…that news shocking me…

7. Web Marketing Tips on January 27th, 2010 3:09 pm

   Within few minutes I am sure all tech lover, bloggers and internet users came to know about this.

   That is the impact of TechCrunch.

8. dd on January 27th, 2010 5:40 pm

   Based on the information I got, they were hacked using a vulnerability in one Wordpress plugin. It was not sanitizing the input properly, almost giving to any attacker shell access via the web…

   It shows that even though Wordpress is getting better at security, no one is looking closer at the Plugins and many of them are vulnerable.

   Recommendation for everyone running Wordpress:

   -Remove any plugin you don’t really need and that is not very common.
   -Upgrade to the latest version
   -Password protect wp-admin (and wp-login too if possible)
   -Restrict access to a limited IP range to wp-admin and wp-login
   -Look at your logs (the wpsyslog2 plugin is good to let you know about anything happen on Wordpress).
   -Monitor your sites (aham, http://sucuri.net is a good one).

9. reza on January 28th, 2010 9:17 am

   really bad news

   if that site can be hacked, then nubi site like ours/mine must be more vulnerable

10. The Human CpU on January 28th, 2010 12:37 pm

    No one is safe – they never are. If you start to get more and more traffic built up to your website – you should start building your security system… The risk increase as your popularity increases… But none-the-least a small time company website I run was “hacked” for no real reason except for sport. So you have those little tikes out there who think it’s fun to mess with other people’s things because they can do it before the age of 7…

11. mk akan on January 28th, 2010 1:41 pm

    really scary.if the big guns can get hacked then what can we do?
    big question

12. Aglo on January 29th, 2010 1:16 pm

    Great website was sought after by the hackers to get a direct link to them. This favorable traffic gained from such a large web, so that took a lot of response from fans.

13. Rahul on January 30th, 2010 12:15 pm

    My site got hacked twice. in past 20 days. I am not happy with it. Do my blog was that popular. No, But i consider myself in better then 60% bloggers or my blog had more vulnerabilities.

14. Jaydip Parikh on February 1st, 2010 3:50 pm

    Now a days Hackers are very smart. they can enter In any System. Even Google has to say enough for his china office.

15. Muhammad Panji on February 14th, 2010 11:49 am

    And now TechCrunch Move to WordPress.com VIP

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