The site says now:
Democratic Underground is temporarily unavailable.
I know that may be like saying on a camping trip “don’t think about a bear” but I thought it might be worth noting and worth putting out an alert in case there was more activity like that happening.
About 20 mins ago I went there, clicked on a story, and a second or so after the story loaded it went to a page that said:
“Seth Rich (I think it was Rich, may have been Riggs) died for your sins”
Then a video started and it seemed to be an attack on Hillary Clinton re one of the recent conspiracy theories.
They’re floating all sorts of crap on talk radio attacking Obama and Clinton.
They’re going to use attacks on them to stimulate retaliatory investigations they can use for making deals with and threatening Democrats if they go too far with Trump.
Is there more of this shit coming? I’ll bet there is.
Dems have to go on the offensive.
Thursday, May 18, 2017 · 5:11:42 AM +00:00
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certainot
Looks like they’re back up:
Democratic Underground was vandalized by a script attack on Wednesday afternoon 5/17
Earlier this evening we suffered a script attack that vandalized some of our members' posts with a video message about a right-wing fringe conspiracy theory.
Our software detected the issue and automatically banned the accounts (and reset the passwords) of those members whose posts were vandalized. This is a safety precaution we built into our software to limit damage from attacks like this. We apologize for the inconvenience. Those accounts have all been reinstated.
The hacker did not gain access to any of your personal data. The hacker did not gain access to any of our website's administrative functions or data.
The vast majority of DU accounts were not affected.
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