Though the Irish ccTLD registry, [[IEDR]], initially stated that "an unauthorised change was made to two .ie domains on an independent registrar’s account which resulted in a change of DNS nameservers", on November 9th, it stated that a further investigation confirmed that "neither the Registrar of the affected domains nor its systems had any responsibility for this incident." The registry further said that hackers probed its system for 25 days before breaking in via a vulnerability in its Joomla content management system, which enabled the attackers to access back-end databases and upload malicious PHP scripts.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/10965-iedr-admits-blame-for-hack-that-brought-down-google-and-yahoo IEDR admits blame for hack that brought down Google and Yahoo], DomainIncite.com. Published 9 November 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref> | Though the Irish ccTLD registry, [[IEDR]], initially stated that "an unauthorised change was made to two .ie domains on an independent registrar’s account which resulted in a change of DNS nameservers", on November 9th, it stated that a further investigation confirmed that "neither the Registrar of the affected domains nor its systems had any responsibility for this incident." The registry further said that hackers probed its system for 25 days before breaking in via a vulnerability in its Joomla content management system, which enabled the attackers to access back-end databases and upload malicious PHP scripts.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/10965-iedr-admits-blame-for-hack-that-brought-down-google-and-yahoo IEDR admits blame for hack that brought down Google and Yahoo], DomainIncite.com. Published 9 November 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2012.</ref> |