FOX News commentator Bill O’Reilly’s website hacked; user passwords stolen
According to a document published by Wikileaks.org, a document leaking website, the official website account of Fox News Channel commentator Bill O’Reilly has been hacked.
The one page document, which Wikileaks confirms to be authentic, shows a list of individuals and passwords of those who have accounts on O’Reilly’s website, BillOReilly.com. The list, according to the document, contains at least 205 names, e-mail addresses, billing addresses and passwords of subscribers.
“The hack was a response to the pundit’s recent scurrilous attacks over the Sarah Palin’s email story–including on Wikileaks and other members of the press,” said Wikileaks in a statement on their website. According to the report, the security on O’Reilly’s website was “non existent”.
“I’m not going to mention the website that posted this, but it’s one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites. Everybody knows where this stuff is, OK, and they know the people who run the website, so why can’t they go there tonight to the guy’s house who runs it, put him in cuffs and take him down and book him?,” said O’Reilly on his show, The O’Reilly Factor, on September 18.
Wikileaks recently published documents from Palin’s hacked Yahoo.com e-mail account. The documents had shown that Palin had been conducting matters pertaining to the public or government of Alaska over her private e-mail account.
In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, Wikileaks stated that they will only publish the single page, but also claim to have several more. Wikileaks also states that they have already received “three letters” from staff members employed by O’Reilly “requesting” Wikileaks to remove the document, which Wikileaks refuses to do.
“We simply cannot [remove the information]. The system, as per policy, is designed so that files can not be taken down, once up,” said a Wikileaks spokesperson.
Wikileaks Summary (edited):
Wikileaks has been informed the hack was a response to the pundit’s recent … attacks over the Sarah Palin’s email story…. Hacktivists… took control of O’Reilly’s main site, BillOReilly.com. According to our source, the security protecting O’Reilly’s site and subscribers was “non-existent”.
The following image, submitted to Wikileaks and confirmed by Wikileaks staff, offers proof of the hack. The image… obtained from BillOreilly.com’s administrative interface, shows a detailed list — including passwords — of BillOreilly.com subscribers. Although Wikileaks has only released one page, it must be assumed that Bill O’Reilly’s entire subscriber list is, as of now, in the public domain.
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