IGN Hacked?

[therightpirate]

Has anyone else noticed that the ign page has been hacked right now? There's a page about Obama being the world's biggest terrorist and the claim that it's been hacked by someone called TH3 PRO.

Anyways I'm sure they'll fix it soon but I'm sure they're plenty pissed over this

 

[tippy2k2]

I just went to IGN.com

Either you've got some weird spam/ad-ware on your system or you clicked the wrong link for I get IGN when I go there

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Sounds like Brian Altano just got extra hammered.

But it looks normal to me.

 

[T_ConX]

Has anyone else noticed that the ign page has been hacked right now? There's a page about Obama being the world's biggest terrorist and the claim that it's been hacked by someone called TH3 PRO.

Anyways I'm sure they'll fix it soon but I'm sure they're plenty pissed over this

Way to get my hopes up! Screen-caps or it never happened...

 

[hamletssister]

Hey how do I post a pic? I screen captured it right before they took it off n was searching now to see if it was my imagination

 

[Lionsfan]

https://db.tt/O7sHojjS got it here

Here ya go:

Spoiler: screenshot

I don't think it was hacked, probably just a messed up script or something, and it plugged the wrong ad in there

 

[nxtrms]

Yeah, IGN has been hacked. Source - I work for IGN. The CMS been locked down for now while the techs fix it.

 

[King Aragorn]

Of course you do. And my father knows someone who knows someone who knows the guy who works at Monolith and he gave me a copy of Shadow of Mordor.
Bit far fetched, man.
But I checked the page myself and there seems to be nothing on my side, either. There are often those ads with misleading click bait titles ''See why this game is disturbing'' or stuff like that, Obama being a big terrorist so it's plausible it's just bad code.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Well, IGN is
so, it wouldn't really surprise me.

Seriously though, it seems fine to me. I say chalk it up to the code glitching out for a bit and then being corrected.

 

[nxtrms]

Of course you do. And my father knows someone who knows someone who knows the guy who works at Monolith and he gave me a copy of Shadow of Mordor.
Bit far fetched, man.
But I checked the page myself and there seems to be nothing on my side, either. There are often those ads with misleading click bait titles ''See why this game is disturbing'' or stuff like that, Obama being a big terrorist so it's plausible it's just bad code.

It was hacked. It was resolved this morning already, which is why the site looks fine now. The email I got this morning:

And I'm not a man, man.