{"id":28,"date":"2010-01-26T02:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:21:11","slug":"techcrunch-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/internet\/techcrunch-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Techcrunch Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular Technology blog in the world TechCrunch got hacked. Users visiting to TechCrunch.com were greeted with different messages &#8211; some with links pointing to downloads and porn torrents website.<\/p>\n<p>The current message of the website is<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re working to identify the exploit and will bring the site back online shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/01\/26\/techcrunch-hacked\/\">Techcrunch is still gathering information<\/a> on how the site was  compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot reported by different bloggers on the net are :.<\/p>\n<p>Current Screenshot<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/techcrunchdown.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshot reported by inquisitr.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/59036\/techcrunch-hacked\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/techcrunch-hacked-1.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshot reported by technologizer.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/01\/25\/techcrunch-hacked\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/techcrunch-hacked-2.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenshot reported by techie-buzz.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tech-news\/techcrunch-hacked.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/techcrunch-hacked-3.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular Technology blog in the world TechCrunch got hacked. Users visiting to TechCrunch.com were greeted with different messages &#8211; some with links pointing to downloads and porn torrents website. The current message of the website is &#8220;Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re working to identify the exploit and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,14],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-techcrunch","tag-website-defacement"],"views":6214,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pradeepsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}