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Comcast Hacked, BitTorrent Fans Delighted

Hackers assault the Comcast website

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

29th of May 2008, 09:24 GMT

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The hacked website was pointing to a page published on a free hosting service

Comcast, one of the largest ISP in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message displayed to all the visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT

RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven". What's interesting is that it seems like the hackers managed to break into the servers and change the DNS as they were actually pointing to a non-Comcast address on a free hosting service. Although some people were concerned about the security of their email addresses, most users, especially the BitTorrent fans, were delighted with the news.

Celebration messages concerning the Comcast attack could be seen all over the world as users posted the report on lots of Internet forums and discussion boards. At this time, there's not much information available because the Comcast representatives have not made an official statement but most users who contacted the company were advised to use a beta version of the website and avoid loading the hacked website.

All we got was actually a forum message posted by a Comcast employee on dslreports.com who said that "we are aware of the problem and working to get this resolved as quickly as possible. This will also affect the Comcast.net Webmail. The Comcast.net Help Forums are currently unaffected and can be reached by going to �forums.comcast.net/. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may be causing." After several hours of downtime, the Comcast services were restored, so everything should be fine now.

Getting back to the happy users, most of them were delighted with the news because Comcast has often being described as an ISP which throttles BitTorrent traffic, providing very slow speeds for downloads. Although the company has promptly denied the accusations, recent statistics proved that Comcast had really altered BitTorrent downloads on several weekdays.

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