Fake
So Warbrain was right all along. Malcor, the hacker after Mac fanboys who mysteriously never got taken off of Google’s servers has been exposed as “PR Stunt” by Apple Matters (the latest site that was supposedly hacked), who decided making their software and hosting look insecure wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Of course, it was getting fairly obvious there toward the end, and Malcor even put up a weak rebuttal to those suspicions:
“Theory #3: It’s all a giant publicity stunt.
This theory’s been tossed around since day one, and to give it credit, it’s a fairly clever attempt at discrediting me. After all, if everyone thinks this is fake, and all credit is being taken by someone else, I’d have no more incentive to keep on with my attack, right?
Wrong. See, here’s the problem. I’m not an attention whore. My goal is to take down Mac fanbois, and the very activity alone provides me with endless pleasure, so yes, expect another very soon.
The most prevalent of these accusations was from ‘Norway’s #1 Mac Portal’, Mac1. First off, isn’t being Norway’s #1 Mac portal basically the equivalent of winning a fingerpainting contest in kindergarten? Anyway, this site that I never heard of before comes out of the woodwork with ‘hardcore evidence’ (meaning absolutely nothing except an accusation) that MacHeist is behind these ‘fake hacks’… then their story makes it to the front page of digg. Um, who’s the one doing the publicity stunt here??”
And here’s Apple Matters:
“I am literally shaking right now because I did not fully understand the impact of this, so lesson learnt. Again, Apple Matters, running on expression engine was in no way hacked. It was a joke publicity stunt that I thought would be funny to attract attention.”
Dear reader, you cannot see me (this being the internet, of course), but I am laughing so hard right now…
Update: MacHeist was behind this, in case it wasn’t already obvious. Everyone is sorry.