Qwest Datacenter "held Hostage" By Hacker (Exclusive)

snoopy · Mar 22, 2012

Qwest Datacenter "Held Hostage" by Hacker (Exclusive)

The hacker known as BlackJester claims that he managed to breach a number of servers owned by Qwest Communications International, one of the largest telecoms carrier in the United States. BlackJester may be remembered as the hacker who personally went to a United Nations office and the US embassy to report vulnerabilities that exposed a couple of UN public websites to malicious operations.

Now he returns with another stunt. He gained unauthorized access to a Qwest server and plans to keep it hostage until the company contacts him. By this he wants to prove how easily accessible their servers are. “What I have breached is a server that controls the server ‘under it’. It’s like with switches and routers. If u gain control on them u can control the rest. You cannot enter the network yet, but u can open a route to the network,” he told us.

BlackJester says that he turned off three of the servers in the morning of March 18. By shutting down the servers he also shut down “company networks and panels.” “I wanted to try something called forced offline. I thought that it will be online and my session will be on and it will act like an offline server, but it appears not. They are off and only they are able to turn them back on manually. Until now they didn’t notice that” he explained. “I got around 3, but there is around 10 or more. If u controlled one u can also make changes in the others because every one has under it many other servers.
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