Comcast Corporation is the largest cable television company and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States. Comcast boasts 14 million subscribers nationwide, and hacking Comcast.net was no easy task. It’s a major website and this feat is a great one for hackers.
The attack began at around 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, and the hackers owned Comcast.net until 4 or 5 a.m. Even when Comcast regained control, it took hours longer for the change to fully propagate through the DNS, leaving some customers without webmail access as late as 11:30 Thursday morning.
The intrusion gave the pair control of over 200 domain names owned by Comcast. They changed the contact information for one of them, Comcast.net, to Defiant’s e-mail address; for the street address, they used the “Dildo Room” at “69 Dick Tard Lane.”
Comcast, they said, noticed the administrative transfer and wrested back control, forcing the hackers to repeat the exploit to regain ownership of the domain. Then, they say, they contacted Comcast’s original technical contact at his home number to tell him what they’d done.
When the Comcast manager scoffed at their claim and hung up on them, 18-year-old EBK decided to take the more drastic measure of redirecting the site’s traffic to servers under their control. (Comcast would neither confirm nor deny the warning phone call.)
“If he wasn’t such a prick, he could have avoided all of that,” says EBK. “I wasn’t even really thinking. Plus, I’m just so mad at Comcast. I’m tired of their shitty service.”
“They called me back five minutes later and said, ‘We got Comcast’,” recalls Nieves.
The defacement message was short and simple: “KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast,” it read. “sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”
“I was trying to say we shouldn’t do this the whole damn time,” says Defiant.
And the most classic quote of all time….
“But once we were in,” adds EBK, “it was, like, fuck it.”
[read the full interview on WIRED]
These guys has gotten themselves into deep shit though. They are now waiting in their homes for law enforcement officers to track them down and knock on their door. After that, it’s Game Over.
Notorious Fame come at a price, and a costly one for that.
