The non-profit whistleblowing website WikiLeaks suffered a cyber-attack by a Saudi Arabian-based hacking group OurMine.
The visitors to WikiLeaks.org were redirected to a page created by OurMine in which they claimed the responsibility to deface the website with a display of statement on the WikiLeaks website. “Hi, it’s OurMine ( Security Group ), don’t worry we are just testing your…. blablablab, Oh wait, this is not a security test! Wikileaks, remember when you challenged us to hack you?”
Other than posting a message on the website, they posted strings of tweets on twitter detailing the reason behind the hack. “first of all, the people who are wondering why we hacked it, we did that because they challenged us to hack them about a few months ago. We have been working on this for a very long time, Finally, we did this! and its hacked!”
There is no official confirmation about how the website was hacked, but it appears that the group carried out a “DNS poisoning” attack rather than attacking WikiLeaks’ servers directly.
This is not the first time when OurMine has hacked the website, in fact, they a reputation of hacking high profile social media accounts including that of Netflix, HBO, Sony, Marvel, Google, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sunder Pichai, former Twitter CEOs Dick Costolo and Ev Williams