full-disclosure - Re: Slashdot hacked?

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:28:34 +0000
From: Danila Wartho <compsecguy@...mail.com>
To: <randy@...cyonlabs.com>, <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Slashdot hacked?

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:18:40 -0400
> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Slashdot hacked?
> From: randy@...cyonlabs.com
> On Thu, July 23, 2009 6:16 pm, Compsec Guy wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:51:08 -0400
> >> From: randy@...cyonlabs.com
> >> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> >> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Slashdot hacked?
> >>
> >> On Thu, July 23, 2009 5:47 pm, Compsec Guy wrote:
> >> >
> >> > What's wrong with Slashdot today?
> >>
> >> Nothing.
> >
> > I'm sorry, but you're wrong.It was just hacked and it's discussed
> > everywhere.
> >
> > I just saw ron1n (author of statdx.c) drawing parallels to his owning of
> > antionline (he succeeded when n1nor million others didn't).
> > Source: http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0011/3009.html
> 
> Then we must be on different Internets, because it is working fine here in
> the Washington, DC area of the USA.
> 

Apparently only Europe is affected due to an anycasted (BGP routing) web service.The bug is only present on the European hosted server.
Can we have an official reply from the Slashdot folks about what happened?It's important all the details get out.
Thanks, - Danila
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