[ISN] Matrix actor site stages defacement spat

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 00:19:31 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/matrix_hacker_site_defacement_spat/

By John Leyden 
The Register
8th April 2010

Rival hackers are duking it out on the site of Matrix actor Harry 
Lennix.

Lennix, who played Commander Lock in the second two films of the Matrix 
trilogy and more recently played Boyd in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, 
maintains the site harrylennix.com. The site was defaced last week, and 
just a few days later was sprayed with digital graffiti by another 
rascal.

The second hacker posted claims that the first (SnazzyG) had bought 
access to the compromised site without actually doing any hacking.

"It appears Defacer A didn.t deface anything . merely purchased (or 
attempted to purchase) the already compromised site from Defacer B, then 
went on to brag about how they.d hijacked a 'famous actor'," explains 
Chris Boyd, a security consultant at Sunbelt Software.

"Cue Defacer B reclaiming their territory and making sure everybody knew 
about it at the same time."

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