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- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) English10•10 months ago
Can someone help me understand why they were targeted in the first place? Maybe to get location+email address in aggregate?
- moody ( @moody@lemmings.world ) 16•10 months ago
They probably didn’t decide to hack Freecycle ahead of time. Rather they likely probed a ton of sites and found that this one was vulnerable to their hack.
- a1studmuffin 🇦🇺 ( @a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ) English5•10 months ago
Large data sets are valuable. And many people who hack are primarily motivated by the challenge, so targeting a site isn’t always a vendetta. Unfortunately sometimes hackers stumble across these things and are motivated by money too, because they’re human like the rest of us.