Official Blu-ray site gets hacked and redirected to HD-DVD site

Posted by Joshua Karp on Dec 24, 2007 8:50 am 11 comments

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Yeah…the title pretty much sums this one up. The official site for the Blu-ray association was breached repeatedly on Friday. Security flaws are nothing new these days, with sites routinely fortifying themselves against malicious hackers. The humor here, however, is that whomever decided to execute this cyber-prank tossed a little humor in the mix, redirecting all traffic from www.blu-raydisc.com to www.hddvd.org, the main site for official HD-DVD business. We’re fairly certain that this had nothing to do with any official HD-DVD operatives, but no one in the HD-DVD camp is going to be upset by this. Now we sit back and wait for the Blu-ray rebuttal.

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11 comment(s) for this post.

On Dec 24, 2007 @ 9:08 am, bluehorseshoe Said:

That’s classic.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 9:45 am, Galvatron Said:

Heh. The could have defaceed the site too. But iy’s still funny I can apreaciate the humor on this.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 10:12 am, Dtest54 Said:

Lame. What a colossal waste of one’s time.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 10:43 am, Galvatron Said:

Hey test for al we know it coauld have been a 14 year old

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 10:50 am, MarxAnth Said:

Welcome to last week…

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 10:55 am, StarScream Said:

Who cares. Just a sad cry for attention from someone who likely has no social skills and no life.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 11:45 am, Feech Said:

Is this sort of stuff still funny?

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 12:30 pm, Jeff B. Said:

This is pretty good since the Blu-Ray and HDDVD businesses have been at each others throats since they were first started.

Can you say technology war anybody?

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 12:49 pm, The Show Said:

Ithink this is pure hilarity! Hope the guy hacks the Yankees website and redirects it to the Red Sox or the Yankees suck webpage next.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 2:32 pm, sanduneboi Said:

Now I’m a harcore blu-ray fan. But I muast admit this was really quite clever.

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On Dec 24, 2007 @ 4:07 pm, Eddie Dollaz Said:

Blu-Ray = PWNED

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