UFC.com hacked

By Sergio Non, USA TODAY
6:38 PM
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Someone temporarily hijacked the Ultimate Fighting Championship's website on Sunday, apparently because of the organization's stance on online piracy.

UFC.com on Sunday afternoon was briefly redirecting to another domain that identifies itself as the "Underground Nazi H4ck3rGr0up" site. UFC had things back to normal before 5:52 p.m. ET.

One individual identified himself as "JoshTheGod" on the domain to which UFC.com was redirecting. That person posted on Twitter at 4:51 p.m. ET to take credit for Sunday's incident:


The mischief came on the heels of an opinion piece written by Lawrence Epstein, general counsel for UFC parent company Zuffa. The op-ed published Sunday in Zuffa's hometown newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, expressed support for proposed legislation such as the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Both bills have been criticized heavily by Internet users and technology companies. To protest PIPA and SOPA, the popular Wikipedia site earlier this week replaced its pages for 24 hours with a note urging readers to speak out against the legislation.

Also this week, law enforcement officials in New Zealand and the United States shuttered the Megaupload site, which the Justice Department describes as a haven for pirated material. Shortly afterward, a cyberattack shut down the Justice Department's site for hours.

Zuffa for years has decried online piracy because the majority of its revenue comes from pay-per-view broadcasts. The company in recent years has become aggressive with lawsuits against parties it accuses of illegally streaming UFC shows on the Internet.

Dana White responds to the hacking:

As of 6:45 p.m. EST the DNS seems to have been reset and UFC.com no longer loads. It's probably going to come back online shortly.

Here's a screenshot from 7:43 p.m. EST:

IQ Wrestler wrote:So Dana doesn't care one little bit that his loyal customers CC data may have been compromised...what a great guy

How on earth can people still support this clown

brace wrote:Now I hear Sherdog owners got hacked too by the same squad. It's unclear but did Sherdog support SOPA too like Zuffa or was there some other reason?

brace wrote:Now I hear Sherdog owners got hacked too by the same squad. It's unclear but did Sherdog support SOPA too like Zuffa or was there some other reason?

monaroCountry wrote:

brace wrote:Now I hear Sherdog owners got hacked too by the same squad. It's unclear but did Sherdog support SOPA too like Zuffa or was there some other reason?

Well they did ban a whole bunch of people a while ago (myself included) because we supported Fedor/M-1 and questioned their pro-Zuffa hype and spin.