Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users to smut site

guest · Nov 8, 2021

Angling (re)Direct: Criminals net website of Brit fishing tackle retailer, send users straight to smut site
November 8, 2021
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/angling_direct/

Miscreants have hijacked the systems of Angling Direct, diverting traffic from its websites to Pornhub and threatening to wipe its internal data.

The London Stock Exchange listed retailer of fishing tackle products and equipment said it is "currently managing a cyber security incident after detecting unauthorised activity on its network late on Friday 5 November."
It further told the City this morning:

"This unauthorised activity shut down the Company's websites and these remain inactive. Some of the Company's social media accounts have also been compromised. [...]"
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Twitter detectives quickly began to speculate that Angling Direct might have used the same password for Twitter as it did for its other systems, and that the passwords were not protected by multi-factor authentication.

In a note to Angling Direct's admins, the criminal/s, referring to themselves as MASTER, said they could be contacted at hackercontact@anglingdirect.co.uk.
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"Apart from sales lost during the hack while the site is down, the loss in consumer trust and the potential for customer data breaches, there is the additional cost of the site potentially losing some of its ranking in Google long term, which would also natively impact sales," our source said.
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