Ancient anime news site Anime News Network has been hacked by an unknown assailant, rendering the website’s original domain unusable, an event perhaps triggered by one of the site’s reviewers negatively criticizing one of the hacker’s beloved shows…
In addition to their original domain, the website’s email was also hit by the villain but staff have ensured that their servers were not compromised, endangering none of their user’s personal information – a “temporary” alternative site has been opened in the meantime.
The original Anime News Network site has been left in a rather sorry state with the time and date on display:
Twitter accounts linked to Anime News Network have also sustained damage and staff are currently hard at work attempting to fix things, with theories as to why the site was attacked have ranged from the culprit being an attention-seeking script kiddie to an attack performed in defense of an ANN maligned franchise…
ANN is still a thing? I haven’t been there in like.. 5 years
Yep, this morning i actually typed it in to go there and the browser just sat there gave a no find site error after about 10 minutes. Unreal, i actaully went to the site while it was knocked off line.
What I especially hate about sites like ANN is that they’re full of underage idiots wrapped up pin new age politics or new anime fans that are too young and stupid to get works like, say, those of Go Nagai. Can’t wait until Devilman Crybaby airs so they can get upset about its portrayal of a hermaphrodite. Even better will be if and when Devilman Lady gets a new anime and they can cry about the portrayal of transsexuals.
I’d like them to sit through Urotsukidoji and see the Nazi death r♥♥e machine. They’d lose their brainwashed little minds.
I don’t see anybody asking the most important question,
so I guess I will have to ask it.
WHAT was the show that ANN criticized so harshly?
Regardless of how good or bad ANN has become, they could still remove the bad page after the hack, reset all access and place a temporary offline page… unless they consider the hacked page an improvement…?