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Tesla site and Twitter account hacked

by gabhubert on 4/25/15, 9:49 PM with 7 comments

• by oskarpearson on 4/25/15, 10:09 PM

  The original Hacker News posting on this was incorrectly flagged when the site temporarily came back online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439486

• by meowface on 4/26/15, 8:33 AM

  https://twitter.com/rootworx/status/592126475689545729

  >Receiving reports that Julius Kivimaki hacked Tesla and Elon Musk's Twitter accounts and websites by Social engineering NetworkSolutions

  NetworkSolutions has a history of falling victim to social engineering attempts and scams.

  Also, Julius Kivimaki is one of the alleged leaders of Lizard Squad.

• by jedisct1 on 4/26/15, 8:04 AM

  A records (IP addresses) were changed, but also MX records:

  https://gist.github.com/jedisct1/13cd60ba702d6d58053c

  Mails sent to @teslamotors.com were hijacked as well.

  End-to-end encryption is badly needed.

• by nodesocket on 4/25/15, 10:29 PM

  Yikes. I wonder if they were running a CMS (Wordpress, Drupal).

• by heimatau on 4/26/15, 1:49 AM

  We can all be hacked.