Vaximillian Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) Pic related, I guess: It was a post about FE Heroes release celebration event. Edited February 5, 2017 by Jyosua Let's not give this guy undue credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeheza Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Was just about to make a topic out of this. I actually hope this could be a drunk prank by VincentASM and nothing too serious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppy Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Feels quite unsettling that this happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornguy Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Its a prank of some sort for sure. I don't think VincentASM would do something so tasteless, but maybe someone left their tab open and a jokester thought this would be funny? At least I hope that's what happened, a lot less scary than someone actually stealing paswords from this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruits_punchsamurai Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) NOT A prank by someone at SF. SF was legitimately hacked. This is a thing that has affected a lot of other niche and blog sites. Google the hack name and lots of sites pop up. If you search the name MuhmadEmad in YouTube , it pulls up a list of instructional hacking videos published by the guy under his YouTube handle. Edited February 5, 2017 by fruits_punchsamurai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyosua Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 There was a privilege escalation bug in some of the more recent versions of wordpress. They disclosed the existence of it during a recent update that I hadn't noticed until now... which led to this guy hopping from site to site exploiting it. We've theoretically patched the loophole now. I will say that I don't think it's a particularly good idea to disclose a serious bug like that so soon. Kinda mad they did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyosua Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I did some follow-up investigation and it does appear that this was indeed the exploit used. It happens. It was a zero-day exploit and the update patch has only been out for about a week. I happened to have been busy the past week, so I didn't notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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