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0 pointsryanlol11y ago0 comments

Which would imply that their backend was compromised, not just DNS.

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zkhalique11y ago· 3 in thread

The CDN could have simply refreshed its DNS cache couldn't it? That would mean it loaded the files from somewhere else.

ryanlolOP11y ago

Unless there was something horribly wrong with their setup, akamai would have prevented that from happening.

Tiksi11y ago

I'm not sure how they are supposed to prevent this. If you have access to the dns, you can change the record for the origin server that the cdn pulls from. Nothing "horribly wrong" with that.

ryanlolOP11y ago

Akamai makes you to set your own DNS server for it to pull records from, the domain getting hijacked should not have any effect on what that DNS server is returning.

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