UFC.com hack criminal investigation underway, no customer info compromised
On Sunday a group temporarily caused a redirect from UFC.com to a page protesting SOPA internet copyright legislation that parent company…
On Sunday a group temporarily caused a redirect from UFC.com to a page protesting SOPA internet copyright legislation that parent company ZUFFA had publicly supported.
UFC.com on Sunday afternoon was briefly redirecting to another domain that identifies itself as the “Underground Nazi H4ck3rGr0up” site. UFC had things back to normal before 5:52 p.m. ET.
One individual identified himself as “JoshTheGod” on the domain to which UFC.com was redirecting. That person posted on Twitter at 4:51 p.m. ET to take credit for Sunday’s incident.
Corporate managment released a hard line statement to MMAFighting:
“On Sunday, January 22nd, the UFC.com website was redirected by a criminal hacker to another website. The UFC website was quickly restored to the control of the UFC, and there is no evidence suggesting that any confidential information belonging to the company or its customers was compromised by the re-direction of the website. UFC representatives are continuing to investigate the matter and are working with law enforcement agents to prosecute those involved.”
Howevever, the evening of the attack, UFC President Dana White responded nonchalantly, via Twitter.
I’m in the fight biz not the website biz!! Might be a big deal to other companies not mine.
Lol, I’m not fucking ebay. My website being down doesn’t mean shit. I’m watchin FOOTBALL today 🙂
I could give a flying rats ass about UFC. Com 🙂
In good news, White’s beloved Pats simulataneously advanced to the 2012 Super Bowl.
Image that was placed as UFC.com’s homepage: