Democratic Underground Hacked

Source: Democratic Underground
Published: Nov 9, 2016
Author: Skinner, EarlG, and Elad; DU Administrat
Post Date: 2016-11-09 12:45:24 by nolu chan
Views: 3089

http://www.democraticunderground.com/503.php

DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND

[Captured 9 Nov 2016, 12:40 p.m.]

Around 4:30pm on Tuesday November 8, Democratic Underground was hacked, apparently by a supporter of Donald Trump. This person clearly knew what they were doing, and despite our best efforts we have not yet been able to resolve the issues caused by the hack.

We do not believe that any member data has been compromised. And we are confident that donor data has not been compromised because that information is handled by PayPal and never passes through to our servers. But at this time we are unable to bring our discussion forum online.

The hack was clearly aimed to cause maximum disruption on our busiest night of the year, and we deeply regret that we won't be able to spend election night with our great community of members. We ask for your patience while we continue to work to fix this problem, and while we do not have a time frame we will do our best to get DU back online as soon as possible.

If anyone has any information about the hack, or has knowledge that might help us to fix it, please feel free to contact us: admin@democraticunderground.com

We will be posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.

We are deeply disappointed that this has happened. But we'll be back.

Skinner, EarlG, and Elad
DU Administrators

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#1: redleghunter    To: nolu chan (#0)

They know a Trump supporter did this how?

redleghunter posted on 2016-11-09 13:06:46   Reply   Private Reply

#2: nolu chan    To: redleghunter (#1)

They know a Trump supporter did this how?

Mebbe they imagined 17 intelligence agencies said so.

nolu chan posted on 2016-11-09 15:08:17   Reply   Private Reply

#3: nolu chan    To: redleghunter (#1)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/503.php

UPDATE 11/9/2016 1:00PM ET

We have now come to believe it is possible that the hacker may have been able to gain access to certain member information on our server, including: Usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses. Passwords were not as easily accessible, and at this point we do not know if it was possible for the hacker to access them. (Further note that passwords on DU are "hashed" and saved in a cryptographically scrambled format rather than as plain text, so if the hacker could access a member's password information they would not have direct access to the password itself -- only to the hash.)

We can say for certain that donor data, such as credit card numbers or addresses, were not compromised because that information is handled by PayPal and never passes through to our servers.

We are not going to bring our website back online until we believe that we are no longer vulnerable to attack and our members' user information is secure. Unfortunately we do not know how long this process will take, and it could possibly take days.

We will be posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding.

nolu chan posted on 2016-11-09 15:31:14   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Justified    To: nolu chan, redleghunter (#2)

They know a Trump supporter did this how?

Mebbe they imagined 17 intelligence agencies said so.

And Hillary said so too! ;)

Justified posted on 2016-11-09 16:51:44   Reply   Private Reply

#5: John_Henry_DaDum    To: redleghunter (#1)

They know a Trump supporter did this how?

Who cares how they know, I think it is great.

God has blessed the USA.

Let us give him thanks and bask in the warmth.

John_Henry_DaDum posted on 2016-11-11 17:47:18   Reply   Private Reply

#6: CZ82    To: nolu chan (#0)

Around 4:30pm on Tuesday November 8, Democratic Underground was hacked, apparently by a supporter of Donald Trump.

But I thought Trump supporters were supposed to be deplorable, ignorant, racist homophobes that couldn't even spell their own name correctly, how the hell would they know how to operate a computer?

CZ82 posted on 2016-11-11 18:49:39   Reply   Private Reply