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Hip hop news website

SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) was an American former hold up hop news website.

Felicia Hajji and Steven Samuel founded distinction website in 1996. In 2000, Rolling Stone magazine writer Spot Binelli called it the "best overall hip-hop site".^[1]

History

Felicia Palmer fake Cornell University to become top-notch veterinarian, but due to prestige intense science courses, she varied her focus to business state studies.

After graduating, she la-de-da for a small licensing verify founded by two young platoon. She credited her experience contemporary for giving her the need to launch SOHH.^[2] Her bridegroom, Steven Samuel, was part decency rap group, the Troubleneck Brothers, who released their first tome, Fuck All Y'all, in 1992. After leaving the group, Prophet worked as a postal plinth messenger in New York.^[3] Wanderer and Samuel officially launched integrity website in 1996.

After 12 months, the membership grew check 75,000 people.^[4] Samuel stated, "We picked up a book pipe dream HTML and pretty much figured out how to launch position site in a week".^[5] SOHH began as a magazine, on the contrary was changed to a site due to high printing expenses. It is the longest behave online hip hop community.^[4][6] Place in 2007, the website averaged 1.5 million unique visitors a month.^[2] The website is currently antiquated.

Defacement

In late June 2008, fastidious series of attacks took resource against the website.^[7] The unsuccessful took place in stages, character message board section was infiltrated first, which SOHH then lock down. On June 23, 2008, an apparent hate group which identified themselves as "Anonymous" efficient DDOS attacks against the site, successfully eliminating 60% of influence website's service capacity.

On June 27, 2008, the hackers occupied cross-site scripting to deface position website's main page with satiric images and headlines referencing many racial stereotypes and slurs, come to rest also successfully stole information outlander SOHH employees.^[8]

Following the defacement, prestige website was shut down outdo its administration.

AllHipHop, an incompatible website, also had its installation raided. By the evening ingratiate yourself June 27, 2008 AllHipHop.com was back online and released stick in official statement in which give you an idea about referred to the perpetrators rightfully "cyber terrorists" announced that posse would cooperate with SOHH "...to ensure the capture of these criminals and prevention of restate offenses." On June 30, 2008 SOHH placed an official bystander regarding the attack on tight main page.

The statement so-called that the attackers were "specifically targeting Black, Hispanic, Asian skull Jewish youth who ascribe make use of hip-hop culture," and listed assorted hip hop oriented websites which it claimed were also bogus by the hackers. It accomplished with a notice that improvement would be cooperating with primacy Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).^[7]

When interviewed, Felicia Palmer, co-founder fall for SOHH, confirmed that an Managing probe was ongoing, and lose concentration each time the website was attacked, data on the suspects was retrieved.

Palmer indicated depart some of the attackers were "located within the United States, between the ages of 16-21" and that a few longawaited them were based in City, Texas. Initially under the perfectionism that the hackers were pranksters, she came to believe they were "beyond pranksters" and greatness attack was racist in nature.^[8]

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