Carders.cc, Exploit-db.org, Inj3ct0r.com, backtrack-linux.org and others hacked on Christmas !
Dec 28, 2011
A group of hackers attacked and took offline several sites belonging to credit-card sharing groups, security experts and other hacking communities who made mistakes in basic security. Administrators of six Websites woke up Christmas morning to discover their sites had been hacked, according to an online newsletter published by the hackers themselves on Dec. 25. In the second issue of " Owned and Exposed ," the attackers listed carders.cc, ettercap, exploit-db, backtrack, inj3ct0r, and free-hack . While free-hack was taken down for being "lame script kiddies," the other sites had criminal ties or were security experts who "fail so hard at security that we wonder why people really take their training courses," according to the e-zine. Mati Aharoni, the administrator of exploit-db , a security-oriented site that catalogs known exploits and vulnerabilities, admitted to being compromised in a blog post, but said that it was limited. "Other than our egos,