Techcrunch.com gets hacked

January 26, 2010 by Kenny  
Filed under banter

Here is a sceenshot from techcrunch.com, it appears they have been hacked. No news on who is claiming responsibility. Here is a picture from their site:

tech-crunch-hacked

Update – 1154pm. Techcrunch have changed their homepage to show ‘we’ll be back soon’

Update – 1156pm. Site keeps going down, timing out. Flashed back to previous hacker message for a few minutes incuding rapidshare.com links

Update – 1250am. Techcrunch updated their site with the following message:

Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.

We’re working to identify the exploit and will bring the site back online shortly.

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