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Obama site hacked; Redirected to Hillary Clinton
by Hax0r on Apr.23, 2008, under Security
Just before the Pennsylvania primaries, Obama’s tech team was patching up security whole in his website. Obama’s website had been hacked. The site forwarded all traffic to the Hilary Clinton website instead. The XSS exploit in the community section of Barack Obama’s site was to blame, along with some cross post injections.
Basically the site’s database stores text from website pages such as chat forums. SQL code and other code can be injected into the forms on the web pages to make the back-end server do various thing. In this case, executable code or SQL was probably injected, forwarding the site to Hilary Clinton’s.
This is typical actions from a cracker during times such as these.
