The Lost Experience

The Mystery of the TLE.COM hacker deepens

We are no closer to learning the indentity of the mysterious hacker who defaced thelostexperience.com, but some new information has come to light that MAY give us some clue as to what this is all about.

First, the hacker modified our template and added the following comment:



Then he/she flipped our logo around. Some indicated that this turned "LOST" into "TSOL" which is the initials of a band called "Sons of Liberty".

In the meantime, some posts claiming to be the hacker were put in comments. Three or four people were stepping up to claim responsibility. Always one to think on his feet, Vexingmodstwo came up with the BRILLIANT plan to hide a message to the hacker within our blog script. Sure enough, one of the "hackers" turned out to be legit.

So far nothing interesting has been said (but don't take my word for it), but the hacker has a curious MO: he/she has been signing their comments "gee" (not the real user "Gee" by the way), put putting single letters as their name. So far we have: a i s u m

Is he telling us to AIM him? Or Them? What is the hackers intentions? Post your theories and keep your eyes peeled for more signs! Don't forget to email us at the tipline if you find something interesting, and of course post it in comments to share with your fellow sleuths.

Posted by DocArzt August 20, 2006 10:56 PM | The Lost Experience

TLE.COM Hacked... reward inside

Well, play with fire and your bound to get burned. I woke up this morning and decided to check my logs and low-and-behold it looks like somebody had administrative access to the server at around 3:00am my time (EST). I haven't found any damage to the system yet, (or even as much as a gloating note), but there is a possibility that information is corrupted somewhere.

I want to emphasize again that there is no personal information stored on this server, only this blog. So all user id's etc are safe.

I've been playing cat and mouse with this intruder for a little while now. It's evident that the break in was just to make a point because from what I can see nothing was altered. None-the-less, the experience has left me with a thirst for vengence. So here is the deal:

If you have information that identifies this hacker beyond a shadow of doubt, I will pay you $100. That's $100 smackers, through paypal, all you have to do is give up your snickering little buddy. That's a lot of Cheerios kids.

Posted by DocArzt August 20, 2006 2:26 PM | The Lost Experience

Attack of The Script Kiddies

Well folks, over the past couple of days we've been incredibly busy both hunting Glyphs and repelling hackers. Friday, we had an intruder get in and poke around... thankfully Doc was on the job, at the all powerful Linux prompt and quickly repelled the attacker. I suppose this is a great time to let you all know that no user information is stored on this server.

But unfortunately, that was not the last attack... I got up this morning and discovered someone had attempted to hack into our blog script. Again, with a little nimble figure work I was able to harden that fortress as well. So my position on all this? Bring it on kiddies. :D

Posted by DocArzt August 20, 2006 5:27 AM | The Lost Experience

The Lost Experience Begins!