TechCrunch Hacked Again: This Time It's Personal

by Jordan Yerman | January 27, 2010 at 08:16 am

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Techcrunch got hacked for the second time in 24 hours. Yesterday's hack forced adult content onto Techcrunch. This time, the hackers left an expletive-ridden message for Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington, which makes the hack look personal.

This is the morning of the Apple announcement, which is a terrible time for Techcrunch to go down, especially if they don't know if the hackers will strike again.

Techcrunch is back up, but this raises serious questions regarding its site security. As you can see below, the message left for Michael Arrington has that I-live-in-Mom's-basement feel to it.

The extensive message read: "So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage yesterday brought you in trough the welcome.html ad you forced people to? What a f***ing retarded move was that you t***. You should be thanking me and sucking on my f***ing b***sack for not deleting everyone on the box and publishing the MySQL, if that's what you want okay, I can do that."