Photobucket Hacked

[silver_vibe]

This is scary. Photobucket's DNS was hacked. I noticed a bunch of images posted on the genvibe forum no longer appear and when I looked further, I noticed it was anyone that used photobucket.com. I went to photobucket and got the following message:----------When a DNS is hacked, the URL you "think" you're going to is actually someone elses server. At that point, you have no clue what that server is trying to do with you while you're there.

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[Kamikaze]

Huh... interesting... I'll have to check my stuff...Looks like my stuff is still in my garage... I wonder what the circumstances are...

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by Kamikaze »...Looks like my stuff is still in my garage... I wonder what the circumstances are...You must be hitting a different DNS server than me because I see nothing in your garage.----------

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[Kamikaze]

Yeah, I must be:

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[Whelan]

Picturetrail FTW!

[northvibe]

dns cache! thats probably why he still sees it.

[coldmm803]

just tried goin to photobucket and i didn't see that warning/notice. also, i can see kami's garage pics fine

[Kamikaze]

Quote, originally posted by coldmm803 »just tried goin to photobucket and i didn't see that warning/notice. also, i can see kami's garage pics fineAnd what nice pics they are too huh?

[Mavrik]

I checked the wife's and seems all is there.

[altimar]

Photobucket wasn't hacked; there's nothing to worry about. DNS is basically like a phonebook. You give it a name (photobucket.com) and it gives you a number (209.17.70.11). What happened was that someone "hacked" into a DNS server and changed the number (IP address) to photobucket.com. Anybody that used that DNS server was given the wrong IP address, and thus were unable to retrieve any photobucket images. It looks like the "poisoned" entry never made it up to a root DNS server and spread very far.Yes, I'm a nerd.

[ZubenElGenubi]

Must be serious: they used eleven exclamation points in their announcement.wow!

[Toasted7]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! (that's 11) that's a lot. Going to have to check my stuff.

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by altimar »Photobucket wasn't hacked; there's nothing to worry about. DNS is basically like a phonebook. You give it a name (photobucket.com) and it gives you a number (209.17.70.11). What happened was that someone "hacked" into a DNS server and changed the number (IP address) to photobucket.com. Anybody that used that DNS server was given the wrong IP address, and thus were unable to retrieve any photobucket images. It looks like the "poisoned" entry never made it up to a root DNS server and spread very far.Yes, I'm a nerd. Unfortuneately, I share your nerdom...but giving the thread the name "West Coast DNS servers hacked and http://www.photobucket.com name resolutions are directing requests to the wrong IP" just seemed to long.

[WaveAction]

i didnt see any message either and all my pics are still there..which im glad but couldnt care since i have them all on my pc anyways

[silver_vibe]

Quote, originally posted by WaveAction »i didnt see any message either and all my pics are still there..which im glad but couldnt care since i have them all on my pc anywaysPhotobucket is back for me. This is why I included screen shots - so no one could accuse me of being crazy!

[altimar]

Quote, originally posted by silver_vibe »Unfortuneately, I share your nerdom...but giving the thread the name "West Coast DNS servers hacked and http://www.photobucket.com name resolutions are directing requests to the wrong IP" just seemed to long. I totally agree, I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, I was just trying to reassure people who seemed worried that their accounts might be messed up. Didn't seem to really work though. Oh well.