What.CD database compromised?

[psxcite]

Seems hackers got the What.CD user database and they are sending fake RIAA emails to all the users. Must have happened during the SQL injection hack.

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Date: 12 Nov 2007 11:34:22 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: my@address
Subject: Music Piracy
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Subj: Music Piracy
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 4:35 AM
From: [email protected]
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Dear registered user of the site What.cd,

We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the
site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the
sole purpose of music piracy.

Pirating music is a criminal offence and we believe it should be obvious
to you that the results outweigh the benefits - hard working artists
won't be rewarded for their work and will stop producing music,
ultimately leading to a severely reduced selection of music both in the
shops and for download.

The RIAA had hoped that the disabling by the police of the large illegal
music site, Oink.cd, would stop a lot of people from engaging in piracy,
as they don't want to be seen as criminals. However, this appears to
not be the case, as two large new sites have sprung up in its place.

This email is the final warning to all of you who were members of
Oink.cd and are current members of What.cd. If we find you to be
committing any more criminal acts of piracy then we will have to press
charges against you, as representatives of the major record companies of
America.

Yours Faithfully,

The RIAA

Oh you silly script kiddies. Get a life.

FYI

Consider your passwords disclosed
The attacker probably has a copy of password hashes and with a bit of effort can result in cracking of your password.

Change your passwords elsewhere!

Luckily for me, I use a different password on everysite.

[Hanz™]

Ugh. Yet another reason to use waffles over what.

[fOrUmAs]

Someone really doesn't like us! ∼ posted on Nov-12-07 by What
This week has been terrible. After we did two code audits and fixed our security issues, our wonderful attackers couldn't get in (yay!), so they turned to brute force. After having been hit by several port scans and a rather fearsome DDoS attack (traffic reaching almost 80 megabits per second (note: that's 10 megabytes per second)) our server pretty much went to hell. After an extended downtime (ending a couple hours ago) during which we tweaked firewall settings, etc., we decided that it was safe enough to bring the site back up.

Pretty much immediately after the site came back up we had someone trying to brute force our (well passworded) ssh accounts (they've now met the hot burny side of the firewall).

What have we learned from all this? That there is a person or a group of people somewhere that wants us to disappear. We originally thought that the attacks were by bored kids, but whoever was behind the DDoS appears to be much more serious than that. We aren't going to publicly speculate on who is behind the attacks - we'll leave that to you guys.

Despite these attacks, we are still up and running, and we hope to stay this way for a very long time. We have plans for this site, and we aren't going to flush them down the drain just because some people don't like what we're doing. The first of our plans involves a very cool freeleech plan, but we're going to wait until we're sure the tracker's relatively stable for that. For the time being, we're keeping freeleech on until further notice.

Edit by DAQ: These fake RIAA Emails are just that. Fake. http://pastebin.ca/770503 Read that.

[Daniel]

Yes, well. It would take large amounts of time to work for 15k user passwords and to use them on top of that. To me it looks like the only target is what.cd and they're really trying to make the staff's life miserable

This mail was originally sent from the what.cd server itself, anything else is smokescreen.

[Polarbear]

i got this nonsense as well. probably a frustrated ex-staff kid.

[AugustoP]

It's send from what.cd server to what.cd userbase. Staff really has to explain that shit to everyone concerned about security.

[Artemis]

Here we go again ?
yet another site database hacked, I think this will be a big nail in the coffin of what.cd on top of the sql injection of the porn image and all the downtime experienced through ddos attacks and 'updates'.

[Polarbear]

even though the pw's are encrypted on the server, i'd recommend to change your what passwords.

[psxcite]

After the Bit-HDTV fiasco, I would change your password on the site. If you use the same password on other sites (shame on you), I would change them NOW.
Also, be prepared to really monitor any unknown emails you may receive. I hope I don't have to tell you not to open any unknown emails people. I would expect now that they have the email list, we are in for some "spam from hell".

[John1988]

OMG!!!
i got the same email
wth is going on??