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UFC Website Hacked, Possibly As Retaliation For SOPA Support

At roughly 5:40 p.m. ET the official UFC.com website was hacked. The site currently redirects to UGNazi.com, a site which is little more than a picture of an anime version of Hitler and a short message claiming responsibility.

Here's the tweet by the person behind the move:

The prevailing thought on why the site was attacked is today's LVRJ article in which UFC executive VP Lawrence Epstein defended the promotion's support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Support of SOPA has led to many websites being attacked recently and the promotion's rather out of touch stance on the issue likely drew the attention of groups looking to make a little noise.

In the latest defense, Epstein talked about piracy taking away the promotion's profits and ability to help grow the economy as well as talking about the need for the internet to have more rules.

There will be plenty more of these situations happening as the final battles in the SOPA war are fought.

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Can someone who sees the hacked site post pic of it? I'm just getting the regular site.
.

Is this real?

The site is down so I can’t see it. Looks shopped like a tri engine aeroplane

It's real.

I see it, this shit is crazy

.htaccess redirect
wow that's...uncomfortable
It's in the fanshots

I don’t see it either

ufc.com is still down. all i see is a blank white page.

i was pretty upset when i found out the UFC was supporting SOPA. but i guess it is not surprising or unexpected.

And then the site goes back up later, and everyone forgets. Great job, hacktivists. Fight the power by being mildly annoying.

As opposed to...?

I think that’s a pretty good, and relevant way to protest.

Not really. If anything it’ll make the government come down harder. That’s like saying denying access to a supermarket parking lot for all customers is a good way to protest a lack of a pay raise. It’s not, and it’s stupid.

read: better than OWS
um ya but can i ask why hitler? lil touchy for jews dontcha think?

Maybe a reference to the government. Hell fox news throws the word nazi around like its the word the.

could be but being a jew i dont really know if i should be bothered or not i was just asking if its a lil much

I would assume it’s a reference towards “fascist” government and their legislation and such. It’s a little strange to call it “Underground Nazi Hackergroup” though, maybe they just think it’s a cool and ironic name or something like that, not sure.

I’m pretty sure you don’t have to get offended at bambi hitler.

In fact, a general rule for the Internet; if you don’t know whether or not to take offense, don’t.

Haha, true. I thought it was funny myself.

It's not free to fix

Costs them tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

LOL!

Not even close.

I got that from my cousin who is a web developer

Running UFC.com is not the same as running your old html geocities page.

UFC's site is hilariously out of date and not up to current standards.

To completely rebuild the site from scratch and update it would cost less than the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” you quote to fix this security violation. Not sure what your cousin is thinking but that’s a ridiculous quote. If he wasn’t joking and understood the problem, he’s gouging his clients like a motherfucker.

i’ll do it for 50 bucks and a couple of monster dub editions =P

The site works fine in Canada, since any attempt to go to UFC.com from a Canadian IP goes to UFC.ca.

You can change it at the top of the page.

Mine sent me to ufc latino

Not for me

I’m in Vancouver and I get the redirect even after clearing my cache.

Hmm, weird
Didn't / doesn't work for me either.

I fail to see how hacking websites is supposed to help anything. If anything this shit just makes everybody who is anti-SOPA look bad.

In any case it brings more attention to the issue, while possibly “warning” companies about supporting it (like the UFC in this case).

It costs money

To fix. Hurting companies where they bleed the most: their wallets.

hilarious song

“You don’t wanna fuck with me…”

Hahahahahaha

and no it doesnt work fine in canada. im in canada. and im listenning to the hilarious katy perry parody as we speak

I guess yours doesn’t re-direct. Weird.

what's the hilarious parody?
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft

HAW HAW HAW

Is that Tezuka’s Adolf or just some crappy picture put up to look controversial? Either way it’s bleh.

Cant say i feel sorry for the UFC, They kinda had it coming.

looks fine for me now, did they fix it?

Still redirecting me, but not my neighbor. Haw.

You would think they would fix this sooner, pretty much all of cbs.com was delted today and put back up in no time.

Pretty big difference in size of companies though, of course.
Who cares if they hack ufc website?

if they touch my PSN again though, heads will roll.

Haw haw.

No heads, only Sony employees for constantly failing to sure up their security.

Amen brother!

Time for some MW3 lol

HACK THE PLANET - in German seems appropriate

not sure if I want to be JoshTheGod right now

Somewhere, some kid named Josh Matthews just had a SWAT team directed to his house.

Josh Matthews?

The goon who used to be on WWE?

I think he's still with them?

Love the picture.. and the song!

Here's how I imagine Dana's response will be

“Man this fucking loser Josh fucking thinks I’m scared of some fucking hacking? fuck him fuck his fucking living in a basement with his mother stupid face. FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK”

I don’t know if he knows because he responded to th AFC game

Speaking of which, UFC gets hacked, Ravens blow a field goal, and it’s only 6:30. Can’t imagine what else will happen

The laces were in! THEY WERE IN!!!!

Joe Flacco played great

Noone can pin this loss on him

Noone or Nuni?

is this from portlandia?

do people watch that show?

It's from SNL a few years back.

thats first thing i thought of when I saw the replay of the missed kick

Good way to show why this bill doesn't need to pass, good job.
OK, I made a copy of the recording using Audio Hijack Pro (Mac)

If anyone wants to hear that crazy ass song, either give me your email or email me at IKilled007 (gmail). It’s 2.7mb.

The file name will be Google Chrome 20120123 0018.mp3
The site is still hacked

The song has just changed. Dana White responds to the hack:

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/955104/hDmzA.jpg

It's not during an event

He probably cares but acting like he doesn’t just so it doesn’t get out that the site was hacked

gotta love dana! haha
Now both ufc.com and http://ugnazi.com/ are down for me
They've probably reset the DNS

I got the hack site.

And just got directed to the guys twitter

I’m sure he’s getting a FUCK load of followers now BUT honestly, I don’t know how you can have a twitter, hack, and not mysteriously disappear

I know the UFC is pro-SOPA but was it really the cause for the hacking? I see it as some random hacker trying to make a name for himself.

Well...the MPAA, RIAA, and several government websites were all hacked on Thursday

I think it’s SOPA related.

SOPA is not gonna help the ufc, if I don't buy a ppv now, why would I buy cause of SOPA closing every sites.
Whoa!

Crazy & freaky stuff right there.

UFC site at this moment

Yep. This is what I see.
yup LOL

UFC shouldn’t fuck with nerds

Can't stop the internet.

-Joe Rogan

looks perfectly fine to me. i guess my tubes are clogged up.

Whoa... tmi bro
How on earth do they still think the bill is a good idea?! >:(
legitimate protests against sopa are good

protests by a bunch of basement dwellers who don’t have the PR sense to realise calling themselves “nazis” is the fastest way to being dismissed? a waste of time.

Haha. Who goes on the UFC’s website?

I do

When there are free fights.

It's clearly that Epstein has no idea the true consequences of SOPA.

The blind leading the blind.

Hackers are sending a strong message

But probably only encouraging congress unfortunately. Does anybody else love how they want to go after people for illegally downloading a few songs, but not after the bankers who cost our nation trillions.

All a bunch of old farts just trying to get reelected in upcoming elections.

But yeah, I agree that there will be consequences of these hackings. To what extent, we don’t really know.

The real criminals are in the White House, passing stuff like the NDAA.

the interwebz

if do right, no can defense.

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