Odex has been hacked!
UPDATE 22/11/2007: Ops, it seems that the DNS wasn’t the one that’s compromised. The page wasn’t working for some people so I assumed it was due to slow DNS propagation, but apparently Odex has always been hosted on PacNet (ironic). The hacker gained access to the web server itself, which probably means the SQL database too. I hope whoever designed the website for Odex had the common sense to salt the md5 hashes of the user passwords.
The domain odex.com.sg was replaced with a message from an unknown hacker. The page has since been taken down. I have mirrored a copy of the page here.
This server was fully hacked because the things ODEX are doing are just completly wrong!
So I hacked them due to my deep abominate against this company.The stupidity of the organisation can not only be seen in the quality of their products or in the disingenuousness of their actions, but also in their skills of web design, compatibility and programming.
You can see that by the fact that the server is now hacked.
Now, I don’t like to stereotype, but the hacker sounds Singaporean… I guess he wasn’t quite pleased with the latest development. (Even though it turned out to be a mistake.)
The colour scheme of the page also leaves much to be desired. That said, his command of English and aesthetic sense aside, I approve of his XHTML coding. He has the proper doctype defined and he uses <br/> as required. Too bad he made a typo (</head> instead of </title>) or the page would’ve validated.
It’s good to know that some people out there care about W3C standards, although I have a feeling that this particular individual will probably be behind bars soon.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:56 am
lol you got fast info
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:00 am
LOL wonder what the media would say if they got wind of this………,
anyway odex got what was coming to them
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 am
Hackers need English lessons.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 am
Beautiful source.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:56 am
Well, it was only a matter of time before an idiot went on and attempted to hack Odex. Do these people really not see that they’re only increasing the problems?
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:59 am
Doesn’t show on IE7
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:12 am
I was laughing like mad when I saw this -_- Odex got what they deserved. Period.
However, I do pity the hacker…
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:14 am
I have a deep abominate for bad English.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 am
yeah because of the invalid code :D anyway the how thing is kind of funny :)
btw about the code I wonder if he really intended to be valid html :D it’s hard to believe that he will close with :D
and may be put W3C logo :D
btw we have to talk about odex being hacked here not about valid code :D
well generally it won’t change anything but wonder do the guy had take all required needs to protect him self from being found out :D hope will found some more info here :) after all nobody talks about odex in bg :D
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:31 am
Lets take bets on how long is needed for Odex to recover their site.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:43 am
Sometimes I wonder how a certain sort of cracker can use all these XHTML tags and attributes perfectly without any problems, but cannot spell “completely”.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 am
I am glad to see ODEX getting what they’ve had coming. I hope their future pages continue to be pwned/ddos’d out of commission.
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November 22nd, 2007 at 5:09 am
“There are plenty of companies which still exist, even if their behaviour is more than wrong (Microsoft to name the worst of them).”
I’m not a big fan of Microsoft, but comparing them with Odex is just wrong. Occasionally MS does release a good product! Not everything they throw on the market is as broken as Windows ME. ^^
Joking apart, I don’t think it’s a good idea to express your by hacking a page. I wouldn’t spray graffitis on the city hall if I disagree with the mayor or his politics either.
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 am
Sorry for the double-post, I there’s a word missing in my last comment. ^^”
“Joking apart, I don’t think it’s a good idea to express your opinion by hacking a page.”
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:17 am
I think ODEX deserves every bit of misery they get.
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:21 am
You know what. Despite what’s wrong with this, I’ll give credit for guts and taking a stand against what can only been seen as corporate greed and stupidity.
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 am
Just when I thought things wouldn’t get better!
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 am
LOL @ W3C ranting
He needs to use XHTML 1.1 …
(Criminal profiling… lol)
He should have hidden some stuffs inside comments..
Also, that is a LONG list of members, considering the forum it was posted in..
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 am
zomg, the first one who notices something ABSOLUTELY wrong in the above comment gets a cookie.
And that was partially due to the BAD influence Paper put upon us, the readers.
Guess what? It is totally SEXIST.
I demand you fix your post to something gender-neutral D:
(lool)
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 am
*sigh* this is going to look a little bad for us… although i have to think that this is probably some foreign chinese anime fan in singapore… ( at the very least, it sounds like that.)
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:49 am
LOL at the hacker’s spelling and vocabulary.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 am
Odex deserve wat they have, not worth for our pityness.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 am
whether odex deserves it is another matter. this hack could get blown out of proportion and become the tipping point for a witch hunt.
slander and threats are one thing but bringing down their entire website? i really hope odex backs up if not they would most likely be able to add another 0 to the damages claim. lol
i dont condone this but neither would i want this dude to be caught.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:46 am
Ain`t that a good thing to tell everyone you hate odex.
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
GG odex. What the hell are you doing by surfing their site anyway.
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:18 am
lolol
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Tsubaki: The hacker posted his notice on AnimeSuki forums.
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Being the apathetic people we all are, we’ll probably have a laugh over this. After all, who takes the Internet seriously?
On a more serious note, going to such lengths is probably quite uncalled for, and it could be the silver lining Odex was waiting for to turn the PR tables around.
Oh well, this whole thing could well be a brilliant marketing move by Odex. Shrugs.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hmm can we now sue Odex for not being able to protect personal information?
Hell my data is in that database…
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
he better not be a singaporean, OR he is good enff to cover his tracks where the police cant find his IP and ISP. if not he would be in deep trouble under Computer Misuse Act chp 50.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
If he is from Singapore, I’d say chances are slim that he’d be able to escape the authorities.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
MD5 is weak btw.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Doesn’t matter how weak it is, it’s still time-consuming to decode it.
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Lss, I agree with you.
It appears the main motive for this ruckus is to literally cause an international outburst and defame Odex. It’s one RIDICULOUS act. Who would want to hack into such a company and makes things worse when it’s already bad enough for them. It’s better off to complain about the company somewhere else by literally stab a large sword at their backs.
I actually rarely heard of this company; the only time I heard of them was about 2-3 years ago on The New Paper. At least I agree with some of their policies about downloading illegal licensed anime.
It’d been good if there’s an IP address for the police to track the culprit down. But it’d be trouble if, for instance, someone used ANOTHER person’s Internet service, or use a public wireless service in Singapore.
Whack the hell out of this hacker! (Although I don’t really support Odex, for I nearly don’t know about them. -_-”)
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
ALL HAIL THE HACKER!!!!!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Someone had to say that.
Jokes aside, This can either be really good, really bad, or just plain be something to joke about with. Frankly, I fully support the actions of the Hacker, but unless he is overseas, chances are he’d be caught and trailed. I’m not too familar with the technicalities of the internet, but whoever did this would probaly be extremely easy to track down if he is hosting the site himself.
Then again, if he really is a great hacker/cracker…..
Well, heck. ALL HAIL THE HACKER!!!!!!
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Man, talk bout the festival of giving. Even though MOSTLY neutral, I tend towards the side against odex (People FTW!) but hacking a professional website cant be morally justified and I think shouldn’t be acceptable in a claimed civic society of Singapore. Then again, what else is surprising? We have people sending death threats(Which IMO is not only criminalising oneself but also giving the recipient and extra stand legally) to ministers for voicing out controversial issues insensitively.
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Chrlapse regarding the death threat thing its not real. its really an injoke and nothing more than that.
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November 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
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http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/#Rainbow%20Table
It can be cracked within minutes now. Even SHA-1 has been cracked. They are planning to migrate to SHA-2 by 2010.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
That hacker is rash and irrational. Okay, Odex is made of fail, but hacking their site and going down to their level? Good job, now you made us all look like immature losers.
“You can see that by the fact that the server is now hacked.”
We salute you, Captain Obvious.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Nice English. I think he is more of an Asian rather than just Singaporean. His English seems quite…..British IMO. But that goes to show that “otakus” don’t need to “get a life” because they have lots.
I hope Odex would spend money on rebuilding their reputation than to trace the hacker. Like what The Mentor said a decade ago, “You can stop me, but you can’t stop us all.” So what if they caught the hacker and press charges? Their reputation is still in ruins.
Let’s see what Odex will do next. I hope the Singaporean judges who handles the case would make some intelligent comment rather than just ” has done something which is absolutely unecessary….”
The hacker certainly has courage to stand and do what he/she think is right. I am going to write to Straits Times forums after the hacker gets caught.xD
I like the fruity and pink background. How kawaii. xD
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I’d agree that this is pretty immature, but I just can’t help not feeling sorry for Odex. It just made me ROFL hard and that’s it. Good stuff.
Ok, move along to the next prank now people.
November 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
…seems singaoreans blood kicks in to resign to fate again.. sg people starting to feel sorry for odex whom they curse and swear? move along and wait for some other company to mess up other peoples’ lifes and feel ’should do something but scared’? at least someone stood up against them unlike us wimping about no anime to watch.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Well, after they “went international”, it could be anyone in the vast, vast, immensely vast internet. Hell, it could even be odex playing the pity card(although this is probably not very likely, but just judging from the engrish alone……). I wouldn’t conclusively finger anyone as responsible.
If nothing else, this turn of events support the idea that this odex battle is taking place on the web more than anywhere.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 am
Oh, and in case it wasn’t clear, I don’t mean to accuse odex of “j(h)acking” their own lousy site.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
tapping in to other people wireless would still allow the police the police to catch you, there is still the MAC address and time of access registed on the wireless gateway, perhaps he is using a stolen laptop and would discard it after he hacked into the website? he might have a chance of getting off scott-free.
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Well, if he really is Singaporean, I’d guess he is at least 30 from the level of English used. I don’t believe many of the younger generation of geeks in Singapore would mistakenly use “catched” rather than “caught”.
I don’t get what you mean by his English sounding “British”, Ryuko_Hikaru. he does in fact use some American idiomatic expressions. (e.g. Anyways) His subject verb agreement however, is alright (save “help boycotting ODEX for the sake of Anime!”); his main weaknesses are abverb placement, spelling errors and wrong inflexional endings.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
@quendidil : are you the guy’s english teacher or something? You sound very keen on finding out who this guy is through his english..
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Well I really want to stab them with a HUGE spoon(probably they already death pinned by it) I really do, SO WHAT IF WE ILLEGALLY DOWNLOAD ANIMES, It ain’t like THOSE guys have great at Security and all.
Hey… if they really want It not To be ILLEGALLY downloaded just let it be LEGAL :p
Or they can chose the hard way of renewing all the security an all over and over again wasting a lot of money cause IT ALWAYS BREACHED.
They make new security we make new tools to crack it open,big deal.
“THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY IN”
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I have to concur with a neutral viewer: hacker did a splendid job to exploit Odex’s security, now he’s going to face the music for breaking Singapore’s laws.
That said, I like to highlight 2 points raised in this comment roll:
1. Odex’s technical capabilities
We all know that IP-based evidences are very, very weak, and for Odex to base IPs as evidence for copyright infringement is very implausible to discuss. Add to their incompetency, the “mistakes” of BayTSP and their now-insecure webpage, how are people going to believe and entrust their monetary posessions (a.k.a. e-Nets and online purchasing) onto Odex when they:
1. Don’t even bother to secure their website properly,
2. Never fully implemented a secure online transaction system, and
3. Had butchered their PR attempts at wooing their potential customers?
In a way, Odex has not gained any moral or plausible points for both their ongoing appeal, and the community. In any case, for the appeal, this latest string of events proves their incompetence of charging anyone for infringement. Insert “false positives” here.
2. The “Odex deserves it” mantra
Firstly, hacking is both morally and legally wrong. Even US laws forbid hacking “for malicious” purposes: this hackjob constitutes “a malicious” purpose, for Odex did not consent to have their website hacked, regardless of whether they should have beefed up security in the first place. Hacking is hacking, it’s illegal and there’s no two ways about it.
Second, I’m sure that everybody have a inkling of glee upon hearing Odex’s being hacked. It’s natural: here is the congregation of all anime worshippers, so I don’t view it in a disdaining light. (In fact, I lol-ed: Odex has been Odex’ed! Twice!!)
But for Singaporeans, remember, your government said “Internet is public domain”, so Odex can sue us for libel (which, rather speaking, is technically and figuratively impossible!).
With all said and done, I hope, as drmchsr0 said, we all enjoy the ride “On a highway to the end of all that we hold dear.”
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Yeah, well, who cares? ODEX got hacked!!!That’s the only thing that really matters here.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:44 pm
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Tech+%2526+Science/STIStory_179360.html
The news already got out to the local paper, it seems we’ll hear about the hacker real soon…
November 24th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
It’s not like things will be taken lightly about downloading illegal anime i.e. licensed anime, especially after this incident. I’d say, it’d be better off that the hacker create a company similar to Odex (but at least better in subbing/dubbing and some other things), than just hack the company itself and cause direct impact on them. Does everything have to go down the worse path?
I’m still viewing this thing from a by-passer’s view, since the beginning. So I’m not on the opposition or the proposition side at all.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
The way the hacker expressed his viewpoint was very biased and one sided. And yes I agree, it does make us look like immature losers.
Odex is wrong. The hacker’s wrong too. But we all know that Odex is much worst.
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December 4th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
‘… or example from a friend living outside of Singapure…’
Singapure? I wonder if that was intentionally sarcastic, or just a genuine typo… Hmm…
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March 7th, 2008 at 11:34 am
All i can say is
O.W.N.E.D
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
erm… hacker’s still not found?
August 25th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
love to here such news.
oh! erm… hacker’s still not found? DO its true. cool!