Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20151004230850/@comment-5973717-20151005192035

This attack was actually pretty simple.

Here's a model on how this attack could be trivially replicated:
 * Step 0: use Wikia's lack of transmission encryption to use a standard packet sniffer to steal either an authentication token or a username/password combo for either a VTSF account or a staff account.
 * Step 1: using that stolen information, slap it into an off-the-shelf bot, and configure the bot to take down and redirect wikis.
 * Step 2: let it run.
 * Step 3: coffee.

Until Wikia starts improving their system security in ways other than token efforts, these incidents are going to continue to happen.

Don't shoot the messenger, the incredibly lazy messenger.