"Message deleted by DU the Administrators"

[brer cat]

I've noticed several posts that were deleted with this message. I don't recall ever seeing that before, and I have never known the admins to use such awkward phrasing. The posts were ones that I responded to that were not in any way offensive or a violation of TOS so I wonder if it was part of the hack. Anyone know?

[Princess Turandot]

1. I think they removed individual posts to which the hacker had posted a crazy video...nt

[Hokie]

2. These are probably messages that contained the infected script (NT)

[demmiblue]

3. Those were the posts by the users who were affected by the hack last night. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

4. That's what I assumed...

apparently the hack involved posting bogus graphics in posts from members. I guess an attempt to get some long time posters tombstoned.

Congrats and thanks to the staff for clearing that up so quickly.

[csziggy]

5. Democratic Underground was vandalized by a script attack on Wednesday afternoon 5/17

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10138421

Some posts were hacked and those were deleted by the DU administrators. I suspect the awkwardness of the phrasing was in the heat of the moment when they were trying to clean up DU and get it back online.

[Cha]

7. Skinner had one, too.. They came with the hacking..

1. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9078579

[herding cats]

11. Even Skinner caught script cooties.

I don't feel as icky now knowing that.

[Cha]

14. Yeah, I was wondering the same thing..

glad brer wrote about it.

herding!

[irisblue]

16. That did make me LOL

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Possibly linked to using 'div"excerpt"', which admin has turned off

There's a Google cache of that post of Skinner's from before the attack here, and you can see he used that to quote an excerpt:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OdywmGPaRbYJ:https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029078480+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Just for completeness, his quote was:

"Karen Handel, a former Republican candidate for governor in Georgia who joined the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation last year, resigned Tuesday as senior vice president for policy just days after the foundation reversed its decision to largely end its financial support for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates amid an uproar.

Ms. Handel, who opposes abortion and called for eliminating government money to Planned Parenthood during her 2010 campaign, was among the organization’s senior leaders who helped persuade Komen’s board to change its policy late last year. The change resulted in a halt of grants to 19 of Planned Parenthood’s 83 affiliates, which received nearly $700,000 from the Komen foundation last year."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us/after-outcry-a-top-official-resigns-at-komen-cancer-charity.html

[Cha]

13. Thanks for Skinner's excerpt from the NYT, mv.. I noticed the

Excerpt was not working.. and neither is the Bold.

[dalton99a]

8. There are more than 500 such posts

if you do a search

[brer cat]

9. Thanks for the answers.

I will not delete OP in case others are wondering about the message.

[Bayard]

10. I asked the same thing last night

Good to know it wasn't admin's gone wild.

[Kingofalldems]

15. To anyone: I assume this is illegal.

Can they be caught?