14 DAY TRIAL // The Pakistani hackers of Team Madleets have breached and defaced the official Daily Mail Forum (boards.dailymail.co.uk).
According to a message posted by the hackers on their Facebook page, the attack took place around 11 hours ago.
However, at the time of writing, the website has been restored. A mirror of the defacement is available on zone-h.org.
HackRead notes that the hackers likely exploited a vBulleting vulnerability in order to gain access to breach the MailOnline forum.
Team Madleets has defaced numerous high-profile websites over the past period. However, they usually rely on DNS poisoning to carry out their attacks. On this occasion, though, it appears they’ve managed to actually hack the Daily Mail website.
This is not the first time when hacktivists target the Daily Mail. Back in February 2012, the news organization’s recipes domain was hacked and defaced by TeaMp0isoN.