‘Turkish hacker’ defaces NAEB storefront selling Cybook Gen3—but NAEB reports no credit card threat

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By David Rothman

“One Turk Against the World” has just defaced the NAEB storefront—a bizarre action. NAEB isn’t some evil, faceless corporations, but rather a grassroots effort, a buying club intended to bring down the price of the Cybook Gen3 e-reader with trimmings, and discourage use of DRM. To sabotage NAEB—short for Not Another eBook—is to aid those who want to keep e-books shackled. Best of luck to NAEB in recovering.

Update, 6:20 p.m.: NAEB’s Derek Benner has just e-mailed us: “We’re getting the store fixed back to normal. We use the same system CD Baby does. All transaction information is secure. Oh, for a few hours of ‘counselling time’ with these hackopaths!” Amen.

Meanwhile, do any TeleBlog readers know Turkish? Click on the screenshot for more details.

Related: Is “Turkish hacker” associated with whoever did this YouTube video mentioning “One Turk Against the World”? Or was the hacker just naming himself after the real people or person behind the video—perhaps a trailer for a commercial movie? Can YouTube please follow up if this lead is promising? Also see other Google references for O.T.A.T.W.

(Thanks to Fred Kiesche.)

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