I see in today JEP that Jersey Insight has been taken offline. Apparently someone hacked into it and changed the name of the site. Some people have just got to much spare time. What could they possibly gain from doing this?
They obviously think there's some 'gain' from it.
Technical challenge, respect from your peers, the buzz of doing something naughty that you think is funny... not so very different from schoolboy pranks like running some knickers up the school flagpole, etc
It's the kind of thing most of us grow out of... must be some teenager.
They have probably done it expecting to get caught, so they can say they know more about security than the site owners. Most sites are very easily hacked if you know what you are doing. Every time you login to your site you send information that is easily ready by others giving them your login details etc. In this case they have exploited a venerability in one of the sites apps, allowing them just to change parts of the script to changes names, a novice could do that easily. Most probably kids
Jersey Insight taken off line
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