Bill O'Reilly site Hacked

by Albert Milliron | September 24, 2008 at 09:22 am
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Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's website hacked

Two days after someone broke into the email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, unknown intruders have hacked the website of conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly and posted personal details of more than 200 of its subscribers.

The breach into BillOreilly.com came as retaliation for remarks O'Reilly made on Fox News condemning the attack on Palin's Yahoo email account, according to Wikileaks, a site that makes it easy for whistleblowers, hackers and anyone else to leak documents.

As proof, Wikileaks posted a screenshot of the BillOreilly.com administrative interface that showed the names, email addresses, passwords, and home town of 20 subscribers of the website. In all, information belonging to 205 subscribers was intercepted, according to Eric Marston, CTO of Nox Solutions, the company that maintained the website.

The hack came in response to comments O'Reilly made on Fox News about the posting of contents of Palin's email account, including pictures of her daughter and her contact list.

From O'Reilly web site

The BillOReilly.com site experienced a minor hacking incident on Friday, September 19th, 2008.

  • ALL CREDIT CARD INFORMATION FOR EVERY MEMBER IS SAFE
  • NO MEMBERS WHO JOINED BEFORE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 2008 WERE AFFECTED AT ALL.
  • 205 new Premium Members who signed up last week had their name, hometown, email address, & BillOReilly.com password stolen.
  • We have contacted those 205 members by email and telephone.
  • We are working with the proper authorities to track down the perpetrators.

 

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