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    Hackers Claim Responsibility for (Temporarily) Felling CBS.com, After Attacking DoJ Site

    A group of hackers temporarily wiped clean CBS.com, in what seemed to be further retaliation for the government shutdown last week of file-sharing site Megaupload.com. 

    Several Twitter accounts linked to Anonymous, a loosely organized collective of hackers, posted messages claiming responsibility for the hack, some of them mentioning "#OpMegaUpload," shorthand for Operation Mega Upload. At least one suggested Fox would be targeted next.

    The group claimed responsibility for hacking the Justice Department's website earlier in the week after federal officials shut down Megaupload.com.

    For a short period, visitors to CBS.com were presented with a single blank HTML file around mid-day on Sunday. The site has since been restored. 

     

     
    • jj  •  Marathon, New York  •  4 mths ago
      Hack the IRS and release tax return info on every member of congress :)
      • SEAL Team 6 4 mths ago
        and give me a nice return this year. PLEASE
      • Heidi Olsen 4 mths ago
        And you will still vote for the same 2 party politicians mr jj evans!
      • Jacob 4 mths ago
        "Hack the IRS and release tax return info on every member of congress"
    • Scott54  •  Gainesville, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      When it comes to CBS....' silence is golden '
      • Catfish 4 mths ago
        Absolutely!!! Anything is better than lies and news manipulation....
      • stillplayingpsolol 4 mths ago
        Very true. I really cannot trust any media company that has a political agenda no matter if it's about saving a cat or a house fire. Somehow, it ends up being a political figure's fault that the cat was in trouble and the house was set on fire.
    • Alter Ego  •  4 mths ago
      CBS.com
      Yeah, and all eight users were pretty irked by that.
      • Catfish 4 mths ago
        LOL!!!! Thanks for the laugh!
      • Leila 4 mths ago
        :)))
    • LaQuan DeTerian Theodoriu ...  •  4 mths ago
      Hackers Schmackers. Dan Rather and Katie Couric already beat it down to irrelevancy.
    • Al M  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      SOPA/PIPA has absolutely nothing to do with artists losing money. The protest is about the US fed govt wanting total control and authority over the internet.
      • John S 4 mths ago
        True. Hollywood and all of those rich companies ALWAYS have the right to sue and go after pirates. If you play a movie on your television do you ever notice all the draconian threats if you copy it? That is our government protecting "their" money. Not yours, not mine but THEIRS. They just want more and more power.
      • G33 4 mths ago
        seriously, have you ever seen the show "Cribs"
      • Biffula 4 mths ago
        No AI M, it's come out that SOPA is dead in its current form. The attack was a direct result of the raid on megaupload. Anonymous is a bunch of anarchist losers. They don't believe in intellectual property rights. They're self entitled losers who think they shouldn't have to pay for anything.
    • FlBiker  •  Orlando, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      sadly, no one noticed. Does CBS have a news division anymore?
      • Catfish 4 mths ago
        I agree. They could have chosen a elite media outlet that people might have actually missed...
      • Jacob 4 mths ago
        "Does CBS have a news division anymore"

        Did they ever?
      • stillplayingpsolol 4 mths ago
        one by one, organizations and corporations will be attacked to show that no company or agency is safe. I believe that's how they work. The MPAA and RIAA needs to be removed for society. $120,000/infringement or whatever? Such idiocy.
    • Brandon  •  Prescott, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      Why can't we put these guys and gals to work on bringing down Iran's nuclear program?
    • over here in this line  •  4 mths ago
      Hack IRS and give everyone a refund
    • Benjamin  •  4 mths ago
      Why couldn't they just hack our congressman's bank accounts?
    • Benjamin  •  4 mths ago
      Hack IRS and give everyone a refund
    • Bonnie  •  4 mths ago
      Never been to that website
    • Abby  •  Sunnyvale, California  •  4 mths ago
      Why, don't they "hack" the IRS or someplace like that and really make a statement??
    • Cheeka  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I am a programmer myself. I dont hack neither do I support it.
      But one thing is for sure. Neither the hackers, nor the actual victims post comments here. We really dont know what they are thinking.
      But, people like 'Cynthia W' who refers fellow humans as 'ugly nerds' is what bothers me the most. Such hatred for any one is highly disrespectful. Ugliness is to be attributed to hearts not bodies.
    • Shelley  •  Meriden, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      anybody still listening to CBS?
    • Rabid Dog  •  4 mths ago
      CBS? Priceless!!!
    • Jerry  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      ABC need to be next. They have forbiden their employees to wear the AMERICAN flag pin because it might upset some of their sponsors
    • j s  •  4 mths ago
      it is 5 yrs imprisonment for being caught illegaly downloading Michael Jackson. If you kill Michael Jackson you get 4 yrs imprisonment. Do you see the problem?
    • Robert  •  Dayton, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      This is what happens when people cry that they are going poor from "stealing" their stuff. The Feds act like a grown up, which we don't want or need, then do dumb stuff. I have yet to see one story on yahoo, and you know they would post it if there was even 1 case of a singer going broke, but i have yet to see one such case.

      Most of their money is not thru selling cd's or dvd's, it is selling their image for commercials and brand name stuff!! Look up britany spears for an example. Made maybe 5 or 10 million of concerts and cd's, but over 100 million working for Pepsi!!
    • steve  •  Troy, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      Hack all the offshore accounts of these politicians and corporations
    • john  •  4 mths ago
      "taking down" a web site is not that difficult to do. All you need is access to the host and a password. If these guys are so brilliant at what they do, use your computers to find a way to help the world. Well, I guess shutting down the CBS website is sort of helping.
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