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		BrandonWasHere on Jan 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TechCrunch Hacked More likely it was an automated attack carried out by bots. I'm still putting my money on the recent rash of non-secure FTP exploits (client side).

dangrossman on Jan 26, 2010 [–]

This was no automated attack. The page was updated with a series of what could only be hand written messages as TC tried to overwrite what the hacker was uploading. At one point the whole page turned to "o_O".

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