FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

Posted by abhishekdelta on Saturday October 20, 2012 @03:50PM
from the self-post dept.

The news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677527) currently on top in HN is a fake one. It was an old FBI hack by CyberZeist that happened in June 2012. Here's the real news url:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberZeist-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Hundreds-of-Federal-Accounts-276384.shtml

And here's the original url of the hack details:

http://leakster.net/leaks/fbimail

It seems someone simply copy-pasted the old stuff to make it look like a new hack by THA, (or may be they themselves did it for publicity?).

EDIT: Good news, the fake post is dead now. FTR http://pastebin.com/BjZMZV63

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by brokenparser on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:49PM (#4678185)

I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by abhishekdelta on Saturday October 20, 2012 @05:01PM (#4678212)

It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by brokenparser on Saturday October 20, 2012 @05:07PM (#4678231)

I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by fluxon on Saturday October 20, 2012 @11:41PM (#4678893)

I had pie a couple of months ago. I still want pie.

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by EGreg on Sunday October 21, 2012 @03:59AM (#4679249)

American pie?

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by Dylan16807 on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:39PM (#4678161)

Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged?

Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by abhishekdelta on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:48PM (#4678184)

Its "Fake" in the context of the original post's claims.

And FYI I did post a comment at-first but hardly anyone noticed it (that includes you too).. probably because the original post already had over a 90 comments and people didn't bother to go through all of them.

And I could already find some online websites and tech news blogs starting to pick this news up from here and spread it on the internet. This kind of news spreads so virally! So I made a post out of it so that people notice it. And they did. Mission accomplished :)

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by enraged_camel on Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:42PM (#4678166)

Presumably because it would have been buried among the hundred or so other comments in there?

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Re:FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake by jason_adleberg on Saturday October 20, 2012 @05:23PM (#4678268)

I mean, it's happened before once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

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