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Angling Direct

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Phil Maggs

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Angling direct website down for about 3 days now, will not answer phone, some american lady saying no staff available...cannot get bristol branch to answer phone..
apparently hacked by a porn hub site, i have an order in with them, only a small one so not really worried but wondering if anybody else knew anything of interest..
 
The AD is hacked by some people, they took over the access from AD, and redirect the website to porn hub. These people also took over the AD's twitter account. So now AD has no access to their site management now. And they are blackmailing the AD at the moment. The rumour is they will sell all the customer information AD has.

This really isn't AD's fault, but the their website hoster and twitter.

Copied from twitter:
For the admin: If contact shelled to be established to us at hackercontact@anglingdirect.co.uk We will return the information and access to you. Otherwise we will automatically remove from our system in 31 days.
 
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I would argue against that.

This is an issue of AD IT team bad managamanet of usernames and passwords. It has nothing to do with the host or twitter. This hack is on the DNS level, you can only redirect DNS if you have login credentials to the registrar.
 
Anthony James said:
I would argue against that.

This is an issue of AD IT team bad managamanet of usernames and passwords. It has nothing to do with the host or twitter. This hack is on the DNS level, you can only redirect DNS if you have login credentials to the registrar.
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I agree the AD’s IT team is bad. But I am not sure they can manager there DNS on their server? I wouldn’t give the website manager the root access to the server, and that is where the dns redirect can happen.

But if AD manages their own server, I agree with you. Twitter is another story, it’s ad’s problem no argue with that.
 
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And I am super surprised that twitter didn’t do anything about it, the only reason I can think of is AD didn’t report it to the twitter.
 
Even if AD uses a hosted site, I would be surprised if they didn't manage their own credentials, which are of course linked to financial transactions. They are not bobs tackle shop 😂
 
The credential for server access should always be different from the website management one. I'd be surprised if they are same.
 
lol
 

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Received a sale email today after nothing at all since the ‘hack’. Is it safe to assume that their website issues have been resolved, as this is the first communication I have received since that was first advised?


Dave
 
i received an order today that was placed on sunday so looks like things are getting back to normal
 
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