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| Kipling, a Belgian bag company, offered a backpack as a prize in a "hacking contest". But the hacking contest went out of control, when the winner of the contest was not satisfied with cracking the contest's password and continued to hack the site, replacing the main page with a "Sorry we've been cracked" message. |
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Credit:
Kipling's web site: http://www.kipling.com/
The cracked version: http://nerdhero.org/kiplinghack/kiplingcracked.html
Mooby's description of how they won the contest: http://nerdhero.org/kiplinghack/
For more information, contact MoobY: mooby at nerdhero.org
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Kipling has designed a whole line of backpacks "intended for hackers". The bags have names such as bookmark, mailbomb, browser, spam, firewall, etc. In order to promote this line of bags, Kipling started a cracking contest, promising to give a backpack to every one who manages to guess the login and password.
Many attempts to crack the password failed, including a brute force attempt by MoobY.
The password was finally cracked by the oldest trick in the book: "Social Engineering". MoobY refuses to describe the exact method of finding the password, but he writes: "Let's just say I used some of my Nerd-Heroic social skills to get the right things".
The login username was: 9840112000309001 and the password was: host
But the story doesn't end here. On Tuesday, the Kipling site seemed to have been cracked for real. Their front page was replaced with "Sorry we've been cracked", and until the time this article is written, that page is still there.
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