Tom used BayWords to publish posts about websites he had hacked.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 33 Details
“So he gave BayWords a try. BayWords was a simple blogging platform”
Person
person:tom
Also: IGIGI
Business owner whose bank account and card were used fraudulently after payment-card data was stolen.
Business owner whose bank account and card were used fraudulently after payment-card data was stolen.
“This is Tom. He’s just found out that somebody’s used his credit card without his approval.”
Pseudonymous hacker identified in the episode as the person who exploited multiple websites, including RockYou.
“Tom’s not his real name, by the way. That’s just the name given to him by the New York Times.”
“Tom posts to his blog saying that he’s taken 32 million accounts”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | BayWords | Explicit | 33 |
| outgoing | EXPLOITS | SQL injection vulnerability | Explicit | 33 |
| outgoing | USES | SQL injection | Explicit | 33 |
| outgoing | USES | RapidShare | Explicit | 33 |
Tom used BayWords to publish posts about websites he had hacked.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 33 Details
“So he gave BayWords a try. BayWords was a simple blogging platform”
Tom EXPLOITS SQL injection vulnerability
Tom tested websites for SQL injection and exploited the vulnerability in csfd.cz and later rockyou.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 33 Details
“Tom saw this website was vulnerable to SQL injection and started seeing what kind of fun he could have.”
“He immediately started checking for himself and sure enough he was able to get right in”
Tom USES SQL injection
Tom used SQL injection through website login fields to query databases and obtain user data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 33 Details
“he could issue SQL commands and query the database [00:10:00] right through the username field of the login page”
Tom USES RapidShare
Tom uploaded the extracted RockYou password list to RapidShare.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 33 Details
“He posted this to RapidShare, a popular file sharing site”