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Craigslist hack knocks web classified site offline: Who’s behind it?

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by on November 24, 2014 at 10:10 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Craigslist, Digital Gangster, hack, Insider

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The venerable web classifieds site, Craigslist, was knocked offline last and is still not loading for visitors. Local versions are redirecting for others. Users visiting the site yesterday evening were redirected to a site called Digital Gangster as a result of what looks like a DNS hijack. Presumably unable to cope with the huge amount of traffic Craigslist itself receives, the Digital Gangster website itself is now inaccessible. The Digital Gangster forum was the source of a well-publicised Twitter hack in 2009 and the theft of Miley Cyrus photos from her Gmail account in 2008. Craigslist’s domain record was modified yesterday,�

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