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Metalunderground.com Gets "Hacked"

posted Aug 4, 2008 at 09:27:13 AM by Doug Gibson.

If you were visiting Metalunderground.com and you're seeing this message on my personal/web development blog, it's because I'm working on cleaning the corrupted data from a SQL injection attack. Some of the data in our database was corrupted, but Metalunderground.com will be restored and back online today, Monday, August 4. More details soon.

Thanks for your patience.

47 Reader Comments

1. name writes:

yay

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:14 AM ET | IP Logged
2. andy simpson writes:

Hope you get metalunderground back up and running soon. Nowhere else on the web quite like it!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:17 AM ET | IP Logged
3. brandedcfh420 writes:

i am a reagualr poster at MU.com. hope you get it back up soon. DAMN HACKERS.....!!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:31 AM ET | IP Logged
4. no one writes:

thank you for 1) redirecting the 'problem' page, and 2) for letting us know what is going on.
hardly anyone does that

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:40 AM ET | IP Logged
5. Jackrum writes:

i wonderred why i wasnt getting to the MU page. bloody hackers

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:49 AM ET | IP Logged
6. Kali writes:

f***ing people (hackers) need to get a life man! I look forward to getting MU

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:04 AM ET | IP Logged
7. Kali writes:

f***ing people (hackers) need to get a life man! I look forward to getting back to MU!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:05 AM ET | IP Logged
8. Kali writes:

Whoops! Sorry DB!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:06 AM ET | IP Logged
9. Christfucker writes:

Who the hell would hack MU?
Why the hell would someone hack MU?!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:54 AM ET | IP Logged
10. Kali writes:

I think that metalmayhem555 guy should be investiagated. He made mention that "websites are easy to hack into."

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 12:00 PM ET | IP Logged
11. Jackrum writes:

some utter pillock who thought it would be a giggle obviously.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 12:07 PM ET | IP Logged
12. DeathInEye writes:

Wow, I was beginning to think MU.com went down for good! Glad it didn't!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 12:40 PM ET | IP Logged
13. StabbingTheDrama writes:

Some people just don't have lives. I was wondering why I couldn't come on here. Thanks for having the link routed here to let us know!!!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 12:57 PM ET | IP Logged
14. Terminator writes:

bastards. glad to know they cant kill MU.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 1:05 PM ET | IP Logged
15. b.bristowe writes:

Thank god. I was beginning to feel close off from the metal world.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 1:09 PM ET | IP Logged
16. Matt writes:

at least we're redirected to a blog and not some goofy hacker n00b landing page...

thnx.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 1:47 PM ET | IP Logged
17. Fuckaname writes:

Wow, I half suspected all the site updates had somehow crashed the place after a few weeks. I was ready to start rioting in the streets! Good to know it's just an a$$hole who thinks he can type 0's and 1's better than you can.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 2:21 PM ET | IP Logged
18. SHREDDER13 writes:

I was wondering what was wrong with MU...
These hackers deserve to be beaten severely...
Go hack into MTV.com or something else lame fukks!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 2:26 PM ET | IP Logged
19. KinGkoOpa writes:

well thats good to hear i was like wtf i need my metal damnit!!!!!!!!!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 2:45 PM ET | IP Logged
20. Jaowel writes:

metalstorm.ee

another great site. I check both daily/several times a day

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 3:41 PM ET | IP Logged
21. coco writes:

hehehehe, what a f***in pity, MU.com my homesite.....hacked....

i was looking forward ta makin a comeback, but peeps don't look at cuban flava...turn those miserable googly beady eyes somewhere else...cocksuckers

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 4:04 PM ET | IP Logged
22. EpicNeckbeard writes:

Lame...

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 4:09 PM ET | IP Logged
23. Cynic writes:

Jeez, it's terrible these days when any brazen kid can pull an SQL attack with help from a few websites.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 4:45 PM ET | IP Logged
24. Kali writes:

Will there be an investigation and the perp prosicuted? I would love to see the book thrown at who ever did this!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 4:56 PM ET | IP Logged
25. Red_Chord writes:

That really blows, but the good thing is...well THERE IS NO GOOD THING ABOUT IT. I MISS IT AND I WANT IT BACK.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 5:03 PM ET | IP Logged
26. Kallah writes:

Sounds like some emo bastard had hacking skills...

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 5:03 PM ET | IP Logged
27. Diamond Oz writes:

I want my MUTV!

On the plus side I enjoyed reading your blog about the Kirby hoover demo.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 5:15 PM ET | IP Logged
28. ugly-bob writes:

lolz at kali. i hope you mean literally throwing a book at whoever is responsible, and make it a heavy one. like 8 bibles taped together and flung from a mini catapult right into the stupid face of the sh**head responsible for causing a great site to be all f***ed up.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 6:08 PM ET | IP Logged
29. Blindgreed1 writes:

Thanks for the update.

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 6:25 PM ET | IP Logged
30. MetallicPunk writes:

Thanks for telling us what was up,I loved Metalunderground is always my #1 source for metal news!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 6:51 PM ET | IP Logged
31. Jackrum writes:

the hacker will be forced to listen to emo all day everyday til he dies

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 7:14 PM ET | IP Logged
32. Kali writes:

On second thought, forget the book! I want to see him or her (or them if it was more than one) have to endure a life time of having to listen to Fran Dreshers laugh!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 8:49 PM ET | IP Logged
33. dgibson writes:

I'm still working on stuff, guys. Unfortunately I've got a little bit of upload and downloading to do, which can take hours with files this size... We will be back!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 9:43 PM ET | IP Logged
34. Terminator writes:

and we will be here!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:01 PM ET | IP Logged
35. robw writes:

sorry to hear guys, hopefully its back up soon!

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 10:17 PM ET | IP Logged
36. kk writes:

good to know MU will be back up

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:27 PM ET | IP Logged
37. Diana Tomlinson writes:

relief!I found ya!thought your site went down the memory hole(akaDHS)'cause of something somebody posted(Iam extremely lo-techakacomputer illiterate;I've been to other"metal music" websites,but yours has "meat&potatoes"-no b.s.,no gossipy crap;the other sites of this nature are like a veneer-glossy at first;then you really check it out&it's thin,no depth,cheap slather.keep up the good work,I can tell your site has INTEGRITY 'cause someone attacked it-yours truly,ATHENA

# Aug 4, 2008 @ 11:47 PM ET | IP Logged
38. Kali writes:

So my gents and brothers, shall we make do with what we have in the mean time and see how everyone is doing?

Deathbringer, I thank you for all your hardwork! Take your time and we will be back to normal in due time. *tosses you a shot* Much like any good soldier we wont abandon you! Atleast not me!

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 12:21 AM ET | IP Logged
39. jimmy j. writes:

I hope da a$$hole who hacked this great site had to spend 1 week of being tied down to a table with water dripping on there head while listening to Tom Jones the whole time. Man i be happy as elton John in a room full of a$$holes when MetalUnderground is back up and running.

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 1:24 AM ET | IP Logged
40. Kali writes:

*LMAO* Nicely put Jimmy J!

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 1:35 AM ET | IP Logged
41. FocusShift writes:

Thank Oden that MU is not down forever, I was half worried I'd have to suffer through those idiots at blabbermouth.

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 3:23 AM ET | IP Logged
42. BoltThrower writes:

I bet it was some angry Kirby salesman.

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 5:51 AM ET | IP Logged
43. Red_Chord writes:

I bet it was Micheal Bolton who did this...

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 7:11 AM ET | IP Logged
44. Cr4wf0rdT3x45J1ng0J4ng0 writes:

^.^ Hey. Take it easy on Michael Bolton. All he needs is a little time, love, and tenderness.

When we find whoever hacked the site, we should string him up and saw his face off. What am I supposed to do not being able to make Trivium jokes all day?

And on a side note, Trivium sucks.

Nice lookin' blog, tho, Doug. I bookmark-y.

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 9:03 AM ET | IP Logged
45. DeathInEye writes:

I'm really appreciative to you DB! You seriously work hard at what you love and that's metal to the core, man. I up the irons to you bro!

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 9:39 AM ET | IP Logged
46. Red_Chord writes:

Yeah, appreciate it DB.
I agree crawford I miss those Trivium jokes. But we have to stop, they are so good you know...did anyone buy that one ?

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 10:10 AM ET | IP Logged
47. dgibson writes:

Thanks for all the support everyone. Metalunderground.com is BACK finally. Please continue the discussions over there. I'll be blogging more about the technical side of what happened here on my own blog, if you're interested, since it is mostly web-development focused.

# Aug 5, 2008 @ 11:25 AM ET | IP Logged

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