Cross-posted at DailyKos.
UPDATE: I think they are in the midst of fixing it. Now the links are not working and working intermittently are working. Also, before you say, "No problems here," read the original post at DailyKos to see comments that show others were DEFINITELY seeing the same thing. I am not just a single person saying this. As a matter of fact, it took me a while to verify that it was happening because I kept going to the wrong links after I heard several reports of the problem.
UPDATE II: The Associated Press has an article on this (a few days later).
Someone has hacked the MyBO website! There are several links that were redirecting to Hillary's website instead of going to the intended pages within MyBO (MyBO is my.barackobama.com for those unfamiliar).
The most notable link was from the MyBO Dashboard page (note, the Dashboard page itself was working fine throughout the entire ordeal):
http://my.barackobama.com/...
While the site was hijacked, if you went from the Dashboard (which, again, worked fine) to the "Community Blogs" section, you would have gotten redirected to Hillary's website from some of the links within the website. Also, if you had clicked on "My Blog" and then "View All Blogs," it would have taken you to Hillary's website.
NOTE: This was not a problem on the main blog that you reach through the links at the top of the page. Only the community blogs (like the one I'm currently typing in) were affected.
At this time, I believe all of the redirects have been fixed. Although, if anyone sees more, post them in the comments. Follow me after the jump for more...
Lots of others are also reporting having the same problems. I actually first heard about it via an email earlier but didn't click on the right link, so I thought it was not true. After getting several more emails, I went back and meticulously looked for the exact links that people were complaining about. Sure enough, the problem was there.
This is all over the blogs, email lists, and groups now. Some others have posted verifying this in the comments below and also in the current open thread.
I've been looking at this, and I'm going to make a guess about the situation. I bet they are not sanitizing the input fields. Someone knowledgeable about web security probably managed to sneak in redirect code, which would send the user not to the link they wanted to go to, but to another link altogether. If I'm right, this is considered hacking and hijacking!
Ok, here's the video at YouTube.
Video was provided courtesy of Zennie's blog, a friend of mine also who diaried this topic at his blog.
My friend Zennie, in the video, postulates that perhaps Clinton's campaign and/or staff may be behind the hijacking. I think it's possible, but we'll never prove it if she is. More likely, in my humble opinion, is that some overzealous supporter with a little tech knowledge and too much time on his hands (probably living in his mother's basement) was behind this.
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