Friday, January 14, 2011

Hacked! BBWAA site defaced on morning of HOF announcement

BBWAA.com visitors hoping to glean some knowledge about Wednesday's Hall of Fame announcement are being greeted by something else this Wednesday morning: Nonsensical, yet colorful, gibberish posted by opportunistic hackers who have taken over the writers' site.

I assume the task wasn't that tough, given that BBWAA.com normally looks like it was designed by my 18-year-old self on my Gateway computer (a graduation gift) in a University of Wisconsin dorm room in 1997. I also assume that web wizard Murray Chass knows exactly what to do in a case like this and that he'll restore the usual content by Wednesday's class unveiling at 2 p.m. ET.

(OK, maybe I'm a little less certain on that last point. Better stick around here for all your HOF news.)

UPDATE: The site has been restored.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Hacked-BBWAA-site-defaced-on-morning-of-HOF-ann?urn=mlb-303727

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