After my earlier post on The Game’s official website forum getting hacked, somebody got busy while I was taking a nap.  I’m not going to be recording a blow-by-blow of this ongoing event but, basically, it looks like MarsAttacks has control at the moment using what is described as a recently revealed php hack.

I’m a little unsure of what’s up with all this because it’s looking more to me like an online party for bragging rights that, in various ways, makes fun of everybody involved while capitalizing on a security flaw that’s either new or just unsecured due to negligence.  In any case, MA has new pictures up, an option to post comments and additional comments that might have been received in the mail.

This is quite a while for something like this to be up on a corporate website.  At a certain point, it would have to be considered a hoax if not taken down, unless this section of the website just goes unmonitored on a regular basis.  Of course, with all the madness happening at the moment, it could be one of those right time, right place moments for MarsAttacks.  I’ll guess we’ll know soon enough but this should be a reminder that a business can be easily embarassed if it’s online presence is not monitored and security is not maintained, whether or not the particular business in question is actually being attacked.

Update: While I was writing this, the forum appears to have been retrieved by a webmaster who’s probably not having a very good day.  The changes I described above are still available at pen15h34d.com and, no, I didn’t take any screenshots so don’t even ask if that goes down as well.