riaa.org hacked?

http://riaa.org

Pretty much every link results in the message:

“It appears that the article you requested has been temporarily removed”

A current thread on reddit seems to indicate that some miscreants may have ‘injected’ some mischief.

Couldn’t have happened to nicer people, I say.

It’s interesting to note that RIAA uses an open and free language (PHP) for its web application. This means that chances are, they’re using MySQL as well. Perhaps the cost of paying for all of those proprietary software licenses became bothersome?

EDIT: A quick check of the response headers reveals that they’re running on Apache and RedHat as well. Nice.

EDIT 2: Yep, it’s a hack.

EDIT 3: “Pics or it didn’t happen“.

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