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Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup
- illuminek 11y agoIs this the maintenance page or has it been hacked?
- bhoomitv 11y agohttps://twitter.com/expresstechie/status/618010135181422592 https://twitter.com/expresstechie/status/618010135181422592
- illuminek 11y agoRecent events @ housing.com look like a movie.
- ghosh 11y agolooks like hacked
- illuminek 11y agoBTW! It went down at around 4:15PM IST and came backup at 4:35PM IST for couple of minutes. After that same story.
- illuminek 11y agoIf I am not wrong then there was a townhall meeting going on @ Mumbai headquarters when it all happened.
- illuminek 11y agoIt is backup again now.
- sangupta 11y agoStill down at 6:00PM IST.
- illuminek 11y agoDown again. For sure someone is playing with it.
- ebinjohn 11y agoIt's even down at 5:20 PM IST
- HappyTypist 11y agoThe sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
- illuminek 11y agoTrue. They seems helpless.
- dotheneedfull 11y agoMaybe they should have offshore their IT function! /meta snark
- ishanr 11y agoits not india's leading startup.
- simonswords82 11y agoWhat is then? Edit: Thanks for the feedback, I didn't know some of these (like VWO) were of Indian origin.
- linux_devil 11y agoflipkart , olacabs , snapdeal , zomato ,etc. are also there , but it's definitely one of the leading ones
- amalantony06 11y agoIn addition to what linux_devil has mentioned, on the enterprise side there is Plivo, HackerRank, FreshDesk, Helpshift, Druva, RecruiterBox, Webengage, VisualWebsiteOptimizer etc.
- ishanr 11y agoadding to the above... browserstack.. my fav :D
- rokhayakebe 11y agoPerhaps some users are unhappy with this: https://www.techinasia.com/india-housing-ceo-released-by-board/ https://www.techinasia.com/india-housing-ceo-released-by-boa... http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/rahul-yadav-fired-as-housing-com-ceo/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/rahul-yadav-fired-as-housin...
- pratnala 11y agoI suspect this is an inside job of some of the employees
- anant90 11y agoIf nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech community world over do not stereotype Indian startups to this one bad apple, and up and coming Indian entrepreneurs do not assume this is acceptable and normal.
- illuminek 11y agoI am surprised to see, that people are not able to redirect it to some decent maintenance page. What could have gone wrong at tech?
- anant90 11y agoIt pretty much looks like an inside job. Surprising bit lies in some engineers working on the infra thinking it's cool to deface the company's site to show support for their fired CEO.
- dotheneedfull 11y agoThanking you for reporting the issue, our support team will do the needful.
- chris_wot 11y agoLOL! What the hell is this word "needful" anyway? The amount of times I've heard this from Indian tech support is remarkable (that and the word "lakh", which I discovered is actually a unit of measurement - a hundred thousand). It's not actually a problem in itself and in fact I'd find it quite disarmingly endearing if not for the fact that every time I've heard it said the "needful" was not done and I have been forced to escalate the issue/argue with support/explain the whole situation again to a second support person.
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- codeN 11y agoInteresting that there is no HTML just a direct link to an image.
- noipv4 11y agoSteve Jobs lite
- sidcool 11y agoYes, I am getting this as the page: http://i.imgur.com/Z0E2RVG.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Z0E2RVG.jpg
- LaFolle 11y agoIts more than an hour and still down!
- linux_devil 11y agovery sad day for housing, I mean some scaling issues are fine but deface is catastrophic . Good luck to housing
- zaidf 11y agoThis may be an unpopular opinion but I think Rahul Yadav was made a scapegoat for all the VCs who put in too much money into housing at too high of a valuation. Yadav has his flaws -- but they are mostly childish, not evil. He gave the so-called adults a perfect excuse to hide behind but it still doesn't excuse the Board for their key decisions related to scaling, burn etc. As for Rahul Yadav, I think he would have done well to find a person he really respects and to listen to him. Zuck did that with Andressen(no, I'm not saying he's Zuck; just that having a close mentor can really make a massive difference.) The Board could have helped here in lightly nudging him to find that somebody instead of engaging in constant confrontation.
- boulevard 11y agoIt is back up again. But was surely done by some insider who supports the ex-CEO.
- ebinjohn 11y agoNow it's time. There is a new website up and running, you guys wanna check it out. http://housing.ceo/ http://housing.ceo/
- boulevard 11y agoSuch a thing is really sad for Indian startup community.
- ebinjohn 11y agoI was expecting a little more maturity from "CEO"s!!!
- dylanjermiah 11y agoSkeptical if that is actually him, his prior actions do indicate it's possible.
- ebinjohn 11y agoTrue that.
- dotheneedfull 11y agoBut given all the outsourcing of tech to India, I thought they were supposed to be very good - why did they get hacked? Did someone not do the needful?