• loops@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Can someone help me understand why they were targeted in the first place? Maybe to get location+email address in aggregate?

    • moody@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      They probably didn’t decide to hack Freecycle ahead of time. Rather they likely probed a ton of sites and found that this one was vulnerable to their hack.

    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      Large data sets are valuable. And many people who hack are primarily motivated by the challenge, so targeting a site isn’t always a vendetta. Unfortunately sometimes hackers stumble across these things and are motivated by money too, because they’re human like the rest of us.