Nissan.co.za got hacked…

by Stii

I’m out on a car hunt and quite fancy the Nissan X-Trail. I went to the Nissan South Africa website to locate the dealer in Cape Town, but their search function doesn’t work. When I select Western Cape, type in Cape Town and hit search, it finds nothing. After trying various combos I thought I’ll leave all search criteria blank and hit the search button.

It worked! Only, not quite as expected… Every dealer has the name:

Hacked by m0sted and DrakuLa İsrael and usa stop No War

Here is a screen shot:

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I wanted to notify Nissan, but oddly enough, the only contact details for Nissan was the dealers. Which are coincidentally all called m0sted and DrakuLa. Hmmm. They better do something as I have a strong suspicion that this might only be the beginning of something worse to come. Oh, and Nissan, at least put some contact form or head office phone number or email address on your site so we can notify you in cases like these.

What was even more weird was that when I went to whois.co.za to find some form of contact, I saw that the technical contact was Netmaster from Infovan. Cool, let me go to www.infovan.co.za. ACK! This is what’s on the Infovan site… very strange…

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Anyways, all good, emailed the addresses found on whois.co.za and if they have not responded by tomorrow I’ll give them a tinkle.

If you want to check for yourself, here is what you do:

  1. Go to: http://www.nissan.co.za/buying_dealers.asp
  2. in the left hand column, don’t make any selections or enter any criteria
  3. hit enter…