Wikipedia We Have a Problem hacked, weird redirect

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Wikipedia We Have a Problem hacked, weird redirect

Post by WWHP » Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:34 pm

Hi everyone,

Just a heads up. The title says it all with the exception that everyone is 90% certain it is a hack, there is small chance this is unintentional but wont know more til later. If I learn more I will post it here. Getting pinged on twitter about it so thought I would make a public post somewhere. Cheers
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Re: Wikipedia We Have a Problem hacked, weird redirect

Post by Strelnikov » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:32 pm

WWHP wrote:Hi everyone,

Just a heads up. The title says it all with the exception that everyone is 90% certain it is a hack, there is small chance this is unintentional but wont know more til later. If I learn more I will post it here. Getting pinged on twitter about it so thought I would make a public post somewhere. Cheers
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I ran it through Google, site came up. This is the top post: http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/2018 ... t-the-ftn/

I tried to access the site through DuckDuckGo, no dice. It works through Yahoo!'s search engine.
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.

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Re: Wikipedia We Have a Problem hacked, weird redirect

Post by ericbarbour » Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:34 am

Hmm, this is really bizarre. I ran the title on Duck Duck Go and this came up:
WWHPonDDG.jpg
WWHPonDDG.jpg (44.6 KiB) Viewed 2062 times

But clicking on the top result simply takes you back to DDG's top page. Never seen that before.

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