“If I Can Dream” Website Defaced

The website for If I Can Dream, a popular American reality TV show, was hacked today and the calendar section defaced with messages from a hacker. If I Can Dream is the latest in a string of reality TV talent competition ventures dreamt up by Simon Fuller, who was also behind the hugely successful American Idol shows. The calendar section is used for listing upcoming and recent events that have happened in the lives of the contestants who are participating in the competition.

As you can see in this screen shot, in the second widget on the bottom left is displaying one of the messages left by the hacker.

Clicking through to the calendar page reveals that the normal entries have been replaced with a prank message by the person behind this attack.

Fortunately the attack has only resulted in the defacement of the website and a few red faces. As far as we can tell, there is no malware offered for download in this particular case. At the time of writing the website is being cleaned up.