411 User ID: 35791804 United States 09/08/2014 12:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fake links to nude celebrities breaks New Zealand Internet! I'm surprised it hasn't happened here.....yet. New Zealanders keen to view hacked photos of naked celebrities are being blamed for a nationwide Internet meltdown involving the country's main provider. It is believed a handful of computer users clicked links on Friday evening believing they would take them to the illicit images, but instead they inadvertently installed malware triggering a crippling Internet attack. It took telecommunications giant Spark, the rebranded Telecom Corp., until Sunday to fully repair what it termed a "dynamic" cyber-attack that overloaded its system covering more than 600,000 customers. The intimate celebrity photos, which included actress Jennifer Lawrence and singers Avril Lavigne and Rihanna, were stolen from a cloud storage system. Spark tweeted it was aware that when people clicked on some links they inadvertently installed malware "generating a high amount of traffic to overseas sites". MORE.... [ link to www.telegraph.co.uk] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47132914 United States 09/08/2014 08:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Fake links to nude celebrities breaks New Zealand Internet! |