Fox hack attempted to hack Fark

The site's owner, Drew Curtis, is suing Fox for the attempted hacking.

Silicon Valley gossip magazine Valleywag outted Darrell Phillips as the hack Curtis says is responsible for breaking into his site.

Apparently insiders at Fox told Valleywag that Phillips has a history of sending dodgy email attachments and Curtis claims that a trail leads to Phillips' machine. The hacker had access to a machine inside the Fox network, and control of Phillips' PayPal account, he claimed.

The facts are that on August 8, several Fark staff received suspicious email encouraging Fark staff to visit a particular website. In August 12 similar emails continued to arrive for other Fark volunteer staff, most pretending to be from other staff.

The emails linked to three websites which installed two different trojan horse programs. All the emails came from a server in Australia and any infected computer would try to communicate with a computer in Tennessee. The Trojan would look for passwords and mail them on.

The IP address of the Tennessee server showed up in multiple attempts to break into Fark accounts belonging to both staff and users. It was successful once.

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