Times Internet, which claims to be the largest Indian online group with a combined pageviews count of 6.5 billion every month, was humbled and exposed by a Pakistani hacker from Lahore. This hacker, who calls himself Mak Man, hacked into the database of Gaana.com, which is Times Internet’s commercial music streaming service, available in 21 languages.
The intentions of Mak Man were not bad, as no database was stolen or exposed; and no financial data was compromised. Also, according to him, he had contacted Times Internet, but he did not get any response and hence made the information public.
This hacking was done to showcase the vulnerability and weak security features of one of the largest Internet companies from India.
Using SQL injection based exploit, Mak Man hacked into the enormous database of Gaana.com, which gets 75 lakh monthly visitors and has 12.5 million registered users as of now.
After hacking into this database, he posted images on his Facebook account, wherein he had also shared a link created on his website which acted as a proxy resource to access all Gaana.com account details.
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The intentions of Mak Man were not bad, as no database was stolen or exposed; and no financial data was compromised. Also, according to him, he had contacted Times Internet, but he did not get any response and hence made the information public.
This hacking was done to showcase the vulnerability and weak security features of one of the largest Internet companies from India.
How It Happened?
Using SQL injection based exploit, Mak Man hacked into the enormous database of Gaana.com, which gets 75 lakh monthly visitors and has 12.5 million registered users as of now.
After hacking into this database, he posted images on his Facebook account, wherein he had also shared a link created on his website which acted as a proxy resource to access all Gaana.com account details.
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