Tesla site and Twitter account hacked

oskarpearson · on April 25, 2015

The original Hacker News posting on this was incorrectly flagged when the site temporarily came back online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439486

meowface · on April 26, 2015

>Receiving reports that Julius Kivimaki hacked Tesla and Elon Musk's Twitter accounts and websites by Social engineering NetworkSolutions

NetworkSolutions has a history of falling victim to social engineering attempts and scams.

Also, Julius Kivimaki is one of the alleged leaders of Lizard Squad.

ryanlol · on April 26, 2015

I didn't do it and don't know why this guy thinks I did.

jedisct1 · on April 26, 2015

A records (IP addresses) were changed, but also MX records:

Mails sent to @teslamotors.com were hijacked as well.

End-to-end encryption is badly needed.

nodesocket · on April 25, 2015

Yikes. I wonder if they were running a CMS (Wordpress, Drupal).

jedisct1 · on April 26, 2015

No, they had a domain name.

heimatau · on April 26, 2015

We can all be hacked.