Hackers Smack Anti-Piracy Firm Again and Again
By Kim Zetter
Wired: September 18, 2007
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/mediadefender
More than 6,000 internal company e-mails were exposed in a 700-megabyte BitTorrent download. A note from the hackers that accompanied the download points to a MediaDefender employee’s personal Gmail account as the source of the purloined mail, which covered six months of internal correspondence.
At least two more MediaDefender hacks have also emerged…In one, hackers obtained a copy of an internal company database identifying some of the decoy files the company has slipped onto peer-to-peer networks. In the other, intruders released a digital recording of a private phone call that appears to be a discussion between MediaDefender personnel and staff at the New York attorney general’s office…In that phone call, ironically, a man who seems to be a MediaDefender official is heard reassuring law enforcement agents that the company’s systems are secure…The stolen database may have been obtained after hackers noticed that the MediaDefender employee’s e-mail contained the IP addresses of company servers, as well as server-login information and passwords…MediaDefender is an anti-piracy company that works with the entertainment industry to thwart the trading of copyright content on file-sharing networks. The company scans the networks and notifies content owners when their material appears on download sites…MediaDefender also posts decoy movie and music files to make it difficult for users to distinguish real from fake content.
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