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(#1) The Spanish PM Was Replaced With Mr. Bean On An Official Site
Anyone visiting the official European Union website for the Spanish Prime Minister in 2010 came face-to-face with a strange surprise. Rather than a picture of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, visitors instead saw a picture of the British sitcom character Mr. Bean. Newspapers previously likened Zapatero to the character, possibly prompting the anonymous hacker to carry out the attack. According to the authorities who ran the site, the hack took advantage of a vulnerability known as cross-site scripting.
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(#13) The Burger King Twitter Account Got A McDonald's Burn
If a hacker takes control of a major fast-food restaurant's social media account, the obvious next step involves changing their name and photo to that of their biggest rival. This exact scenario happened to Burger King in February 2013, when an unknown attacker accessed the Twitter account for the chain. Rather than do anything malicious with this information, they decided to troll the account instead. This resulted in several messages claiming the company had been sold to McDonald’s, and a change of name and picture to match the legendary golden arches.
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(#10) Hackers Plastered Bored Teenagers Over Lenovo’s Website
When news got out in 2015 that Lenovo laptops came with Superfish malware pre-installed, certain groups decided to take revenge. Using a popular hacking technique known as DNS hijacking, Lizard Squad managed to re-direct visitors to the Lenovo website to one the hackers controlled. The group plastered the secondary website with pictures of seemingly bored teenagers, which feels extra savage on the part of Lizard Squad. Songs from High School Musical also played in the background, y'know, just because.
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(#2) The Vogue Website Was Filled With Accessorized Dinosaurs
One hack discovered in 2013 on the Vogue website, as well as others owned by Conde Nast, involved dinosaurs. Inputting the famous Konami code on the keyboard while browsing the site led to dinosaurs appearing across the screen wearing various types of hats and headwear.
To this day, no one quite knows who carried out the attack. Some suspect an employee for the company, as this would have made it much easier to hide as an Easter egg of sorts rather than a genuine attack.
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(#14) The World's First Technological Hack: The Marconi Telegraph Troll
In 1903, the "father of modern radio," Guglielmo Marconi, was stationed on a cliff ready to demonstrate his new-fangled telegraph to the Royal Academy of Sciences. As he braced his fingers, ready to send a message more than 300 miles across the airwaves, the machine at the receiving end of the communication began pulsing strongly. The decoder spelled out the pulses into "RATS" several times before the messages launched into a seemingly random limerick. "There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily," it pronounced rudely, before launching into other miscellaneous quotations. It turned out a wireless engineer named Nevil Maskelyn from the Eastern Telegraph Company had set out to prove a point: that these telegraph messages weren't private. Indeed, they weren't.
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(#8) Students Posted Fake Announcements On A News Channel
Local news stations often have a system in place for local businesses and organizations to announce closures due to bad weather. In 2004, one such system on North Carolina's News 14 suffered a security flaw which allowed students at North Carolina State University to post their own messages on the ticker of the news channel. Once a message got reviewed and approved, it could be changed without any further interaction from a member of the station. This allowed the students to alter the ticker to send rude messages directly over live television through messages that, technically, were already approved.
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Perhaps most people think that hackers are the kind of unshaven, bearded, serious, and meticulous people who sit in front of the computer. However, in history, the reasons and methods of some hacker attacks have made people laugh. For example, a group of Tunisian hackers and terrorists claimed to bring down the Western world and then launched attacks on British companies. But they were discovered that the attack was on the schedule information website of a bus company.
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