lylekelm wrote:
Really. Why would anyone hack the site. Must lead a boring life if that's how you get your thrills..
It's most likely an advertising firm. Hacks are generally not people doing it for thrills. There is a whole area of the internet that is dedicated to people selling their hacking skills to firms that want redirects. They inject the code to what ever sites they can and then iffy firms pay good money for their site to pop up, different levels of cost to how many times the site can be visited and redirected (say 1 in 50 is the cheap option and 1 in 10 is the most expensive, the more redirects the more likely the hack is discovered and removed)
They target sites like NetEA as they are well established sites that have regular traffic but has low end security. Sites like this could sit vacant for years with out being updated (Go take a look at some of the early Epic sites from the late 90s/early 2000s. Some of them are still hosted yet not had updates in 8 years or more) and also fans sites don't tend to have tons of money kicking around to fight issues.
Same reason warseer is regularly attacked. Not only did it have a steady user base, it is heavily linked back too all over the net, but not important enough to be on the high end of security.
People generally blame it on someone getting their kicks through disrupting 'the system', mostly due to media's portrayal. But mostly its shady companies hiring someone in need of some extra cash.
A high percentage of these attacks do stem from 'microsoft windows alerts'- Basically scam artists that use very basic tech skills to lure in the vulnerable, much like cold callers.
Almost all these 'hacks' can be found online and deployed by anyone with a login to a computer.
Dave said it simplest. Profit.