‘The Regime’ hacks 711chan.org in response to ‘Anonymous’ attack on Scientology
An as-yet unheard of entity calling itself The Regime gained access to 711chan.org, a site popular with vigilante group “Anonymous.”
The hacker/s first posted a message (below) saying that “This site has not been blessed by The Regime and is deemed lame.”, believing Anonymous to be self-proclaimed hackers, when in reality, the media has given them that title. It also refers to Anonymous’s attempt to bring down the Church of Scientology (operation chanology), saying that “chanology is lame, scientology is lame.” It thereafter declared that /i/ (where Anonymous had been discussing Operation Chanology) had been rm’d (removed). Minutes later, 711chan was not responding and as of 2:44 p.m. (eastern time) the site was still down.
The downtime lasted only three minutes, after which it was replaced by the words “let’s try this again”, which showed that ‘Plasma’, the tech admin, was already reversing the damage done.
At around 0.30 GMT, an attempt to load 711chan yielded what appeared to be Google of Romania’s homepage due to their provider buying IPs from RIPE.
As of 01.00 GMT, an error screen is shown in place of 711chan, saying “Warning: require(/var/www/lib/gettext/gettext.inc.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/config.php on line 215.”
“Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/var/www/lib/gettext/gettext.inc.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/config.php on line 215,” added the message.
At 02.00 GMT, 711chan was back to normal, except for many images missing that had been posted in the last three weeks.
At 14.00 GMT, The Regime struck again, saying that this time all backups had been “rm” (removed) and that “all your db(databases) are belong to us”, an allusion to the phrase “all your base are belong to us”.
It was subsequently discovered that 711chan wasn’t hacked, as originally believed, but that the passwords were keylogged from one of the head admin’s computers, and used to compromise two machines related to 711chan. 711chan’s machine was freshly reinstalled and setup within two hours of being compromised, however the other machine was not back online until 05.00 GMT and the site remains down.
A video posted to YouTube by “TheRegime01″ responded to “Anonymous” using Scientology jargon: “Your attacks on Scientology have not gone unnoticed, we have the money, resources and tools to put an end to your SP behaviour and so called hacking activities. You have soiled the good name of LRH and now it is you that have *our* attention.” “SP” refers to the Scientology term Suppressive Person, and “LRH” refers to Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. Both terms were also used recently in the Church of Scientology-produced video featuring Tom Cruise promoting his beliefs.
