Easily enough done with your bank account, email, whatever...if you have an easily guessed/cracked password!
And pictures being stolen that are in the public domain anyway, isnt one of my biggest worries!
But on checking the story, Photobucket wasnt hacked...their DNS entry was, which meant that traffic meant for Photobucket was actually sent to this Turkish hacking groups message instead. No Photobucket accounts were hacked!
But the attack basically highlights many of the issues with a high-profile site like Photobucket. The higher the profile and the more users one has, the juicier the target to hackers. Photo sharing sites have long been mostly ignored by hackers, but it looks like that might be about to change! It certainly wont stop me using Photobucket...for the reasons I mentioned earlier, its far easier to use and quicker than Imageshack!
Posted: 23 Jun 2008 10:06
