lol some book-fed graduates cant even amout to anything..like you

I make no judgement on her honesty. But the biggest winner is xx, who managed to get more hits, and coverage on the newspapers, and her blog restored within 48 hrs

heh. i seriously doubt she deserves any sympathy or anyone else talking abt this anymore. why pay her more publicity?yeah that was what i was wondering....and anyway i always thought that negative publicity is better than NO publicity at all...so was this a genuine attack of a hacker or ??now she will be able to get all the attention she thought she lacked from some pple perhaps? now she probably expects a whole stream of sympathy perhaps? and the best part of this "accidental hacking" would be having her blog made more famous than ever.sympathy and fame. ingredients essential to an internet whore's life. Yeah, I guess I would not put it past her to do so. And yeah if you are reading this Wendy, yes, I am voicing this on the INTERNET.

serves her right then. ive never really liked her entries anyway. haha. that should teach her a lesson.

Trackback from BlogSphere: XiaXue's Conspiracy:

So what exactly happened? Was XiaXue merely lying just to get more exposure and popularity? She was featured on CNA, Straits Times and Today, where all of them reported about her blog being hacked....

I think this would not have happened to XiaXue had she been smart enough to go to university. She is such a poly-trained idiot.

Koon Hui: DO NOT, undermine a polygrad!!!! A mere polygrad can't possibly bring the reputation of Singapore to a higher ground!!!

yeah, you know what she did to the last graduate who laughed at her for being a poly grad. Vaguely grisly, that.

Anyway for a while there I was thinking she didn't deserve getting hacked. Until I read that she used her IC as her password.

We have here what is supposedly a shining paragon to bloggers everywhere (at least in Singapore), and she does some dumb f!@# thing like use her IC no as her password.

Better, I suppose, than paying good money to go to university and still remaining an idiot, as you seem to have done.

Trackback from Jasper Chen:

This, well, lead to dozens of people crying as their accounts were hacked. The 'mega-best' hack goes to xiaxue, where her 3 years of hard work, were all deleted....

Trackback from XiaXue Hollywood Act Reloaded:

Like a three-act-plot Hollywood movie, she is now more famous than before. Not only she gain a wider readership, she even got her ordeal covered in Straits Times on page 16......

Trackback from Nebulaenova.com:

Anyway, whatever it is, I wanted to say I sympathise with you about the hacking. Maybe it is a sign for you to start afresh? And you should use a new tagline because I don't worship the ground you blog on....

Trackback from Coup de Grace:

The only consolation to be had of this episode would be that the hacking occured to someone with the magical ability to restore her site, rather than anyone else....

Trackback from Sotong Queen:

These 2 days are full of shock. I've got a weak heart... not too sure how many more I can take.

Xiaxue's blog got hacked. Badly. Apparently someone didn't quite like her, but it still puzzles me how someone could have guessed her password?...

Looks like it's back, but most of her archives are gone. Only read her blog twice, like her pink style. Though I dunno her, I'm sorry to hear that her blog is hacked. No matter how good/bad that blog is, there is no excuse to hack. It's like raping!!!

Trackback from Tribolum.com:

I’ve never been a fan of Xiaxue. Sure, she’s won numerous blog awards with her brash, in-your-face insensitivity. After a brief read about how she didn’t give up her seat to a pregnant lady on the train because she “didn’t......

Isn't ironic that the 1st post on Xiaxue's restored blog is about bashing SPG?
It is more ironic that Xiaxue is bashing about the content of SPG's blog while claiming the freedom to say and bash whatever she wants.

Or bi good that you got hacked, Xiaxue... Maybe this will teach you a lesson

OMG THIS IS LIKE THE LONDON BOMBING! cept no one died but i do digress this is on par, the same level of distruction that the london bombing have done.. THE HACK OF XIAXUE..

i rather be more sympathetic towards real tragedies..

Trackback from The Hopeful Bootstrapper » Blog Archive » Analyzing Xia Xue’s Recovery Story:

Yes folks, we have nothing better to do. Foxtrotecho explains it!

[foxtrotecho] ok. we tested it

[foxtrotecho] paul set up the account. password and security question....

Trackback from beary happie life:

ahh! xiaxue's blog was hacked by sum guy known as Mr Tan Kok Wan(who the hell sia~KNNBCCB!) We need to help xia xue find the culprit!...

Seems like a case of password leak.

Could it be that someone sniff the wireless traffic during the Bloggers.Sg event?

If so, I will advise that everyone who have transmitted their password over the air during the blogger.sg event to quickly get their password change.

Trackback from The New Age Jedi - The End of One Chapter, A Beginning of Another :

... You've made her even more famous, because now everyone knows that Xiaxue got her blog hacked, they'll be visiting her blog even more intensively, waiting for her to be back. The papers will definately do a column on her about her misfortune. ...

Trackback from Tabloid TImes:

Update 2 : TODAY newspaper (Friday, 22 July) carried an article on Wendy's hacked blog. ...

Hi there, some of you maybe intrested in this little experiment
me and my friend tried, in regards to the gmail cookie "login"

http://bootstrapper.net/posts/analyzing-xia-xues-recovery-story

haiz poor girl... my yahoo was hacked last time too... my ex emails all gone i know how she feel... but hope she get back soon! :)

Trackback from [some form of love carves my pain]:

Some (somehow legal) advice from your friendly gahmen officer....

Yeah, the hacker's has still committed an offence, and anyone can report that offence, but I don't think the Act views the blogger as the victim. So unless the blog host or the email host can really be bothered to help with whatever police investigations there are, the blogger's outrage is only worth so much.

Trackback from Tales From Chambana - Hacked!:

No self respecting person will do what you did (if you're the same person) because this is nothing but spiteful vandalism. No cyber heaven for you pal. ...

Trackback from XiaXue Hollywood Act:

What used to be a beautiful pink as peach site full of bitchy but engaging ramblings is now a plain Jane site with her lamentations over her lost.......

paiseh... i was the one that sent the link here... 4am = 1pm time here... lunchtime surfing my friends.

hope all goes well for her in the end.

The sections of the Computer Misuse Act quoted by jseng don't help the blogger whose account has been hacked, because the unauthorised modification isn't made to the blogger's computer - it's to whatever computer/server the relevant data was stored on ie. Blogger's or Gmail's. So unless Blogger and Gmail are willing to help XX out beyond restoring her data, I don't see her police report going anywhere.

*buzz* wrong. CMA is a _criminal_ offense. This means anyone can file a report with the police and they are obligated to act on it - they can discourage you from filing, they can prioritize it, but they cannot ignore it - just like they cannot ignore anyone who reports a thief. It differs from civil cases where the plaintiff have to do the investigation themselves.

The term "Computer" doesn't restrict to your own PC.

Interpretation
2. —(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

"computer" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other data processing device, or a group of such interconnected or related devices, performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device or group of such interconnected or related devices, but does not include —

(a) an automated typewriter or typesetter;

(b) a portable hand held calculator;

(c) a similar device which is non-programmable or which does not contain any data storage facility; or

(d) such other device as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe;

Yeah, but must it be the victim (Blogger/Gmail, technically) who makes the police report? XX can make a report on a crime that's taken place, no?

Section 6 also seems to apply, although I'm no lawyer:

Unauthorised use or interception of computer service

6. —(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who knowingly —

(a) secures access without authority to any computer for the purpose of obtaining, directly or indirectly, any computer service;

(b) intercepts or causes to be intercepted without authority, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device; or

(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, the computer or any other device for the purpose of committing an offence under paragraph (a) or (b),

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both.

Trackback from dsng.net:

One of the more well-known Singaporean bloggers, Xiaxue, just had her Blogger account hacked, and over 3000 blog posts deleted. That's, to put it mildly, a shitty thing to do. It's probably even criminal....

Trackback from My Olive Tree:

The Queen of Spore blog, Xiaxue, has been hacked. My condolences.

Saw this great cooling picture over at Boing ......

Trackback from mr brown:

Last night, some wanker, with too much free time and a whole lot of malice, hacked into Xiaxue's Gmail account and deleted 3000 emails in there. Many of those emails contain important information and contacts. ...

Trackback from idiosyncratic verbosities:

Let the powers COMBINE! Captain Bloggers, he’s the hero, gonna take blog-hackers down to zero…...

Trackback from 10 Possible Reasons for Hacking Her Blog:

3. Newbie-blogger but expert-hacker who wanted Xiaxue as a blog URL but found that it was taken....

Trackback from The Angry Little Girl:

Did you did this outta boredom cause no one wants your cock, COCK WAN?! ...

IE cookies: so, you're not saying that she hacked her own site? OMG, why would sweet XX so something like that????!

Catch the culprit now and bring them to justice now!!!!!!!!!!!

Trackback from chlim01 is bored:

But this doesn't make sense. If the hacker had changed the passwords of her GMail and Blogger accounts, the IE cookies would have been invalidated, and she would not have been able to enter these accounts....

yeah that was what i was wondering....and anyway i always thought that negative publicity is better than NO publicity at all...now she will be able to get all the attention she thought she lacked from some pple perhaps? now she probably expects a whole stream of sympathy perhaps? and the best part of this "accidental hacking" would be having her blog made more famous than ever.sympathy and fame. ingredients essential to an internet whore's life. Yeah, I guess I would not put it past her to do so. And yeah if you are reading this Wendy, yes, I am voicing this on the INTERNET.

Trackback from du5tzz hate the intruders to bloggers world..:

These sickos.. Jail them for such low class acts.. I hate them to the core.. Burn u mother farker......

wonkytong is up. Some of the entries are gone though.

Trackback from Born on Ninth of August:

The hard but best way to archieve your Blogger Blog posts is to save these htmls files. In the case that hackers strike, you could then copy-and-paste these posts back....

Trackback from fugs:

Didn't Gmail say... ...Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!...

Whatever that we are writing here, he can see.
So it's time to say "HELLO dude"

Please show up in the next public event, we look forward to SEE you.

If you know what I mean...

If the pattern and message is the same, the whole destruction process could be automated?

Doesn't take much to do it, any mischevious idiot is capable of it.

And to those who continue to condemn them, you're just making these hacker(s) gloat. Instead, if you have a blog, please ensure that your password not be found in the dictionary or common singlish, like KNNBCCB.

As for the hackers, hope they're smart enough to cover their tracks.

Kudos to blog hosting company, if they are able to restore the victims blogs. Considering its a free service?