The simple but effective classified ads platform, Craigslist, has been hacked.
It went offline last night and is still not working in some demographics. Some of the current problems that the site is facing is the redirection of search results. When a few users visited the site yesterday, they were redirected to a site called Digital Gangster. Apparently, the site went under a DNS hijack.
However, because of the large average traffic Craigslist usually takes, the site, Digital Gangster, has been closed. The Digital Gangster forum used to be a source of twitter hacks.
In 2009, Digital Gangster took credit for hacking 33 celebrity accounts in Twitter including Bill O'Reilly, Britney Spears and Rick Sanchez from CNN.
According to TNW, the Craigslist domain was modified yesterday. The new registration was filed under a "steven wynhoff @LulzClerk."
The Twitter account @LulzClerk has a suspended status. While, the Twitter Account of a Steven Wynhoff has been inactive since 2013.
The name Wynhoff has already made its credibility when it was linked to the hacking of "Call of Duty" YouTube accounts. It was also reported that the Wynhoff person was responsible for hacking Satoshi Nakamoto's email this year.
However, even though there are multiple online users suggesting that Wynhoff is the person behind the Craigslist hack, it is unlikely that he will be tracked using this name.
For now, the Craigslist's domain record has been restored to the owners but the site is still offline. If the problem is the DNS configuration, it might take a few hours to get the site online internationally.
Meanwhile, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has published a statement confirming the DNS hack. The post reads:
"At approximately 5pm PST Sunday evening the craigslist domain name service (DNS) records maintained at one of our domain registrars were compromised, diverting users to various non-craigslist sites.
This issue has been corrected at the source, but many internet service providers (ISPs) cached the false DNS information for several hours, and some may still have incorrect information.
If you are unable to reach the craigslist site, please ask your network provider or tech staff to flush all *.craigslist.org and *.craigslist.com entries (A,CNAME,SOA) from their DNS servers."
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