Stanford University website has been hacked and defaced by an Indian hacker with the handle ~Sahoo~.
Attack anatomy is unknown. The hacker successfully penetrated into the server and uploaded a defacement page on Stanford University website.
The defacement looks kind of speculative as no specific reason mentioned by the hacker on the deface page. The hacker writes on the deface page:
Stanford University g0t 0wned!!! Shocked???
Indian Hacker ~SaHoo~ was here!!!
FEEL THE POWER
/.logout”
Hacked Sites:
stanford.edu/~mclindon/cgi-bin/
web.stanford.edu/~mclindon/cgi-bin/
Mirrors of the hack:
zone-hc.com/archive/mirror/26014c0_stanford.edu_mirror_.html
zone-hc.com/archive/mirror/dada64c_web.stanford.edu_mirror_.html
At the time of publishing the article, the website was still hacked and showing the deface page.