Hackers Smack Anti-Piracy Firm Again

Found on Wired on Monday, 17 September 2007
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The newly revealed attacks threaten to turn what started as an embarrassing e-mail leak into a full-blown security meltdown for the company.

At least two more MediaDefender hacks have emerged since Saturday. In one, hackers obtained a copy of an internal company database identifying some of the decoy files the company has slipped onto peer-to-peer networks. In the other, intruders released a digital recording of a private phone call that appears to be a discussion between MediaDefender personnel and staff at the New York attorney general's office.

It's unclear how the conversation was recorded by the hackers, but a note from the person who posted the audio file on BitTorrent claims that intruders have been monitoring MediaDefender's phone system for nine months.

A truly bad week for them, a good week for the P2P world. I doubt they will take the guys they are dealing with lightly in the future. If they can continue and not just vanish. I also doubt that Randy and Octavio will try to strike a cool pose for AP pictures again so soon.