How far would you go to get Nintendo's attention to tell them that their security is not efficient? Aside from stripping naked wearing nothing but a Mario hat running around their HQ screaming the Zelda theme song, you could hack their Wi-Fi site.
Apparently, such was the tale of the hackers who actually succeeded in taking down the Metroid Prime: Hunters leaderboard, scores and usernames.
Downtime was brief but they may have gotten their point across. Shortly after the attack, the page reappeared seemingly untouched.
The question is -- effective or not? Did these hackers make their point? Or did they merely have their 15 minutes of fame?
[Via QJ Net]
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9-24-2006 @ 10:50PM
Kevbo said...
Why? Are people that lame?
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9-24-2006 @ 11:20PM
Silver R. Wolfe said...
I'm staff at a major art site and whenever we're hacked it's a big eye opener and we quickly crack down on whatever exploit was found and all around beef up security.
I'm hoping Nintendo did the same which means these hackers accomplished their goals.
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9-24-2006 @ 11:44PM
Davoman88 said...
yeah but we woodnt need to bump up security if it wasn't for these hackers, dont idolise them as ur local neighbourhood spider man
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9-24-2006 @ 11:50PM
flyers241 said...
Although not as impressive as hacking the Gibson, this hack should have alarms going off at Nintendo to fix up their security quickly, or at least in time for the Wii and its WiiConnect 24/7 thingamabob.
Oh, and HACK THE PLANET!!!1
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9-25-2006 @ 12:33AM
Nushio said...
Read this some time ago, the hackers, from GSCentral, exploited some functionality already tacked on MPH.
Some debugging stuff used to add 10k kills, headshots and whatnot.
They were also banned if they used this code afterwards, so theres really no point on cheating...
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9-25-2006 @ 12:52AM
Tenjo said...
Someone on QJ claiming to have a part in it posted a link to their shitty message board.
http://gscentral.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4275
I find that hilarious. Not the site being hacked, I didnt even know it existed until now. But these kids think they actually accomplished something. It kinda raises my self-esteem a bit to see such people exist who can only take pride in 'hax0r' skills.
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9-25-2006 @ 3:30AM
Zatos said...
Haha, that's awesome. A picture from the movie "Hackers"! That movie was great... as a hilarious and unbelievable attempt at portraying "hacking"!
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9-25-2006 @ 6:58AM
DCFC Fan said...
"Fifteen seconds of lame" is more like it. If you're going to do hack something, hack something that people remotely care about.
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9-25-2006 @ 7:20AM
Mikelx215 said...
Lame? Uh, there are professional hackers who hack into sites to expose security flaws. They then bring trivial information such as personal e-mail logs or a metroid leaderboard, print it out show it to the owners of the site as proof. I'm guessing this is a case like this.
Don't just assume this is some Sony fanboy hacking in from his PSP. Nothing was damaged, the hackers were whitehat.
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9-25-2006 @ 7:34AM
Ukyo Tachibana said...
I wouldn't call this "lame", necessarily, at all.
From what it seems, the people responsible were a bunch of White Hats. Innocent hackers who, like someone said, expose weaknesses to the system, just so the defenses could be improved. Just a friendly "reminder" to Nintendo that it *can* happen. Heck, White Hats who impressively penetrate a very good defense may end up being hired by said company.
Trust me, it could've been WAY more worse, especially if Black Hats had a hand on them...
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9-25-2006 @ 12:30PM
Nintendo Wi-Fi said...
Hackers... i remember that classic
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9-26-2006 @ 11:44AM
anonomousdfdf said...
okay, you idiots need to shut up. It was done to help out the Leader boards, we informed them about the weeknesses of the board, and when they didn't listen we took action. It's all fixed, no worries, it's not like we wiped the database clean. We already appologized for this and they seemed to take it well.
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