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> NewsBlur is useful, destroying it serves no purpose at all. And make no mistake: the hacker clearly aimed to simply destroy it and pretend they have copied th
by Mogzol 4y ago
> NewsBlur is useful, destroying it serves no purpose at all. And make no mistake: the hacker clearly aimed to simply destroy it and pretend they have copied the data, so they were more than willing to do just that, wanton destruction for a miserly amount of money. Whoever did this may think they're l33t and cool but I personally think they are utter trash.
I doubt this was even specifically targeted at NewsBlur. Reading the article it sounds like it's just an automated attack that scans for any open mongo servers on the internet and does the same thing to any of them. Not that that's any better, really.
- jacquesm 4y agoWell, someone controls those tools and someone is on the receiving end of that bitcoin address.
- Kwpolska 4y agoThat someone very likely doesn't care whose databases they break. The operation is probably automated and they try to ransom anyone with a broken server.
- nubinetwork 4y agoThey'll just run the money through one of those mixing services and you'll never know where the money went.
- xwdv 4y agoIt’s not better, but at least it wasn’t personal, which would be worse.