{"id":3204,"date":"2009-06-08T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2009-06-08T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T07:58:12","slug":"popular-bookstore-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/popular-bookstore-website-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"POPULAR Bookstore Website Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this news on Straits Times. POPULAR Bookstore was compromised and hacked. The hackers was using the address to redirect them to their own website. I googled for the news from Websense and saw that it has in fact put up this information on 5th June 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/popular-bookstore-website-hacked\/popular\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?fit=460%2C275&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"460,275\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"popular\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?fit=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?fit=460%2C275&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3205 aligncenter\" title=\"popular\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?resize=460%2C275\" alt=\"popular\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/popular.jpg?resize=300%2C179&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to Websense, it mentioned that the hackers add in a pop up malicious code to redirect the users to another website. See below screen shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/popular-bookstore-website-hacked\/pmalicious\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?fit=505%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"505,303\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pmalicious\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?fit=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?fit=505%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3206 aligncenter\" title=\"pmalicious\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?resize=461%2C277\" alt=\"pmalicious\" width=\"461\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?w=505&amp;ssl=1 505w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pmalicious.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Update from Straits Times:-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Popular&#8217;s marketing manager Lynn Lee on Monday confirmed the breach, and said  it has since fixed the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No customer data has been lost,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Popular and the company that hosts its website in Hong Kong are both investigating the attack and will consider further legal action if it is able to identify the perpetrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Alerts\/3413.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read the Full Report<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Singapore\/Story\/STIStory_387506.html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/securitylabs.websense.com\/content\/Alerts\/3413.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">source2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this news on Straits Times. POPULAR Bookstore was compromised and hacked. The hackers was using the address to redirect them to their own website. I googled for the news from Websense and saw that it has in fact put up this information on 5th June 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,61,14],"tags":[846],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-local","category-techie","tag-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-PG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}