LOST Experience: Thelostexperience.com Hacked
On August 20th, DocArzt of the Tailsection reports that someone had been trying to hack their server. The hacker first changed the template of their LOST Experience site by adding to the code, and then flipped their banner.
UPDATE:
As many suspected, the hack at thelostexperience.com led to the discovery of a glyph 45 with the code “FRXRUK9TQ” on August 22nd.
Recap from thelostexperience.com:
It began as a simple defacing. Our logo was reversed, our alignment disturbed, our posts ran blood red. Something was going on, and it wasn’t good.
Vex, and Doc set out to track down an intruder, and instead found an interloper with a philosophy; the mysterious “Gee” was here to stay until his message was out. A bit of code in the template source proclaimed “I am not your enemy”, while mysterious posts signed by single letters began to filter into the comments.
Soon, the hacker revealed he had finished phase one. The letters added up to seeming nonsense: S I M N O B A U D. Several were quick to solve this part of the equation using their superior brainpower, and a couple by using scripts (cheaters!) to come up with “subdomain”.
Next a mysterious piece of text: GCWH PIFHGUV QVWP YSH ASDDUK. Another anagram? No! A cryptogram! Again, while his hacking skills were formidable, his encoding was no match for the sheer intelligence of the lost experience community. “THIS MONSTER GRIM WAS CALLED”.
Soon, enterprising players discovered that this line was a direct reference to the name of “Grendel” from the epic “Beowulf”.
Grendel himself taunted us: We had the key, but he had the lock. It turned out to be a lock of time; we waited anxiously for the mysterious hacker to show up again, and show up he did. At the time of his choosing, a new domain opened up here at www.thelostexperience.com: http://grendel.thelostexperience.com and revealed… A BLANK PAGE!
Luckily, Grendel had not left us without a clue. His fondness for the words “light” and “contrast” made since when “thelock.gif” was taken from the page and adjusted for contrast, revealing the gif above.
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