Comcast Successfully Shutdown Due to Hackers

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On Wednesday, hackers were able to shut down Internet service provider Comcast for nearly five hours. The 14 million people that subscribe to Comcast were unable to access their email, news, or technical support from the company's website. Comcast was able to restore access to its site by early Thursday morning.

According to reports, the hackers gained access to Comcast's Internet registration account at Network Solutions and reconfigured the site's settings. When users tried to visit Comcast.net, they were redirected to an alternate website that said:

"KRYOGENICS Defiant and EBK RoXed Comcast. sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven."

Comcast issued this statement to The Denver Post in response to the incident:

"While that issue has been resolved and customers have continued to have access to the Internet and e-mail through services like Outlook, some customers are currently not able to access Comcast.net or Webmail. Network engineers are working to resolve the issue."

Wired News claims they spoke to the alleged hackers "Defiant" and "EBK" in a phone interview. The alleged hackers say they tried to warn Comcast that its network was vulnerable and could be easily taken down. Because Comcast ignored the warning, the hackers took down the site.

The hackers do say the outage has nothing to do with Comcast's troubled history with P2P service BitTorrent.

"Comcast is just a huge corporation, and we wanted to take them out, and we did," said Defiant to Wired News.

Both Comcast and the alleged hackers claim no personal information was taken from Comcast subscribers during the attack.

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