SOHH
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SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) was an American hip hop news website. Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel founded the website in 19961. In 2000, Rolling Stone magazine writer Mark Binelli called it the "best overall hip-hop site".
SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) was an American hip hop news website. Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel founded the website in 1996. In 2000, Rolling Stone magazine writer Mark Binelli called it the "best overall hip-hop site".
Defacement
In June 2008, a series of attacks took place against the website. The message board section was infiltrated first, which SOHH then shut down. On June 23, a group which identified themselves as "Anonymous" organized DDOS attacks against the website, successfully eliminating 60% of the website's service capacity. On June 27, the hackers utilized cross-site scripting to deface the website's main page with satirical images and headlines referencing numerous racial stereotypes and slurs, and also stole information from SOHH employees. Following the defacement, the website was shut down by its administration. AllHipHop, an unrelated website, also had its forum raided. By the evening of June 27, AllHipHop was back online and released an official statement in which it referred to the perpetrators as "cyber terrorists" and announced that it would cooperate with SOHH "to ensure the capture of these criminals and prevention of repeat offenses." On June 30, SOHH placed an official statement on its main page, alleging that the attackers were "specifically targeting Black, Hispanic, Asian and Jewish youth who ascribe to hip-hop culture," and listed several hip hop oriented websites which it claimed were also attacked by the hackers. It concluded with a notice that it would be cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Palmer confirmed that an FBI probe was ongoing, and that each time the website was attacked, data on the suspects was retrieved. She indicated that some of the attackers were "located within the United States, between the ages of 16-21" and that a few of them were based in Waco, Texas. Initially under the impression that the hackers were pranksters, she came to believe they were "beyond pranksters" and the attack was racist in nature.
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