Widget was hacked... Proof enclosed.

[Paulitician]

It could have been hackers or it could have just been buggy. Who knows.

 

[Sarge]

Some thing smells. Not saying it is true, but a lot of money was riding on over and under 6M betting.

 

[mokkan88]

Did it inflate or deflate the number that showed up?

 

[TheWhiteRider]

if they successfully hacked it they would have made much more drastic changes to the amount displayed. IF they were trying to decrease it, they would have REALLY decreased it, and same if they were trying to increase it.

 

[InRonWeTrust]

I would accuse Huck's Army, but we all know they aint smart enough to pull off something like this.

 

[phoenixrising]

i saw it too!!!!!!!!!!! number dropped!

geeze louise......guess they got tired of campaigning for neocons --finally!

 

[me3]

Basically what an injection attack is designed to do is utilize character input bars to plant code that they hope the server will parse into actually command statements. It does it by first figuring out what the server is programmed in, then working to design a special character string to dump the current line of code the server would be working on and have it follow a different command... from which that point the hacker can almost have complete control.

They literally could be draining the entire database of CC#, address... etc

Don't make people paranoid until we know for sure what the deal is. That's like yelling fire in a theater.

 

[V4Vendetta]

Yes I saw that also!

 

[Drknows]

Looks like maybe the backend screwed up and skipped a beat.

 

[jjockers]

holy shit!

There are hackers who don't support Ron Paul?!

LOL

 

[Fox McCloud]

so, does this mean he stole donations? What, exactly, does this mean?

 

[EvilEngineer]

It didn't work probably, successfully injected code wouldn't be visible there.

Yes I agree, this one was an unsuccessful attempt. That does not mean however that it was their last one. If anything it was a test, and they modified the code shortly afterward or had a bot testing dozens of attempts at the same time.

 

[sirachman]

Check out the graph... At the very end. Dang

http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/dec_16_extended_total.html

 

[BeFranklin]

Think a gambling site tried to crash it before it showed 6 million? Because the widget did crash right before the end.

 

[Wingman]

we will have to be on guard for this in the future :/

a violent minority :/

 

[Laserbeast]

You can't inject a SQL "attack" from the donation page, completely false. Moreso you couldn't inject a SQL "attack" via a Flash widget. I've worked as a database administrator 2 out of my short 21 years on this Earth

Less panic more celebration!!!

 

[shagywashere]

I called campaign. They're aware. Just a technical issue.

That would have been uber scary, though.

Good....that would be horrible if they stole CC

 

[Baba Ram Dass]

Most likely there was a problem with a polling response, which came back incomplete.

I'm not worried. Just a technical issue.

 

[Paul.Bearer.of.Injustice]

probably an internal server error but def needs to be checked.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to do an injection hack on the most trafficked widget on the net

 

[EvilEngineer]

Don't make people paranoid until we know for sure what the deal is. That's like yelling fire in a theater.

I know, but the question that was asked is what "could" it do. That is sadly the truth... injection attacks can compromise servers, MANY e-businesses learned this the hard way.