Valleywag
Reports came in over the last hour that Muxtape was hacked, and the online-music startup has confirmed the news on its blog.
This afternoon, someone gained access to our server and caused some problems. We are investigating and will have more information soon.All the various mixes played one song and one song only — noodly downtempo chillout "Good Disease" by Aim. Could a sufficiently emo Connected Ventures engineer ticked at Muxtape backer Jakob Lodwick's poaching of Justin Ouellette have decided to take matters into his own hands?
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I alerted Justin to the issue that was used in this hack back in April. He told me he would fix it that night but I guess he never did. I'm surprised it took this long for someone else to find it. The issue was that there was no check done to make sure you had access to the song you were editing. Web application security 101.
Seems that all the songs were replaced not just renamed so either a new issue was used or it was an accident. Probably an accident.
What the hell is muxtape good for? We need more music somehow? That's something we don't have enough of, online music. Call Thomas Dolby with this fresh startup idea!
Caused how many emo indie types to weep? All the ones I know are over at nin.com remixing at will.
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