Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-1820055-20150725015308/@comment-26091666-20150727041242

PoiIsLovePoiIsLife wrote: Crazy teitoku wrote: Although one of the scripts Regalis111 edited a few times seems to be harmless. I'd say it is still nonetheless a wake-up call for security to step in.

Due to the very nature of how wiki in general works (everyone is free to contribute as they please), it will be interesting to see how this is going to go on from here on in.

Stremespoats wrote: Hacker or not, what this person have done is still unacceptable. It only cause inconvenience to everyone. He must've 'hack' for some good reason... Or so I think :P

Because of the alarming news about cybersecurity, OPM, Internet vunerabilities and stuff, he might've gave us a headstart and pushed the vunerabilities to the devs. Hope they could improve (if not maintain) this site from faslifying info or personal account vunerabilities.

Not that I condone the person in question's action over the incident, the subject swings either way depending on where you stand.

On the bad side - yes it is nasty that someone had to go around to mess with the scripts that was not meant to be used in any other specific manner. Consequentially victims fall prey should they use these "compromised" entities.

On the good side - the side effects was somewhat minimal at worst, enough to break scripts and/or cause slow downs/crashes and what not. It could have been worse - it could have been abused in a way for one to gain access to a compromised system or that it was used for malicious purposes such as used to attack some random victim. This would have turned the "culprit" in this case from a hacker to a cracker or even worse script kiddie whom takes advantages of other people's losses.

Lots of entities (particularly business orientated) aren't necessarily interested if others found a loophole in their systems. However someone has to do the dirty work or it could have become worse. Without someone looking for loopholes, we'd be living in an era where everything seems so perfect when it isn't. It really depends on how you view it all.