Teenage Hackers Publish PHP Fog Source Code After Breach

A COUPLE of 16-year old hackers had their wicked way exploiting a security vulnerability recently that allowed one of them to steal and publish a PHP cloud hosting firm's proprietary source code on Twitter. On his company's blog, PHP Fog founder and CEO Lucas Carlson described how an Australian called 'Eliot' and an American called 'John' embarked on a competition to see who could deface Carlson's website the fastest.

Carlson said that 'John' gave instructions to 'Eliot' to break into PHP Fog's shared hosting environment. The PHP Fog boss admitted he made it easy when he "unfortunately and stupidly" had an old copy of the company's code on the server that had PHP Fog's system passwords on it, which it had not deleted or changed. Oops.

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