Nic.ly website defaced by hackers

Nic.ly

Nic.ly: not looking very corporate at the time of writing

Sophos reports that domain registry nic.ly has been hacked. The registry is responsible for .ly domain names, but, at the time of writing, all that remains is a message from ‘Electr0n’, a curt “bye bye Qadaffi”, a reference to the date Libyan protestors began demonstrating, and some ‘greetings’ to fellow hackers.

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