The Hypixel Website Situation

You may have heard of it, you may have not. You may even have seen the website yourself when it was hacked. 

Here’s a screenshot of the website when it was taken control:

As you can see, they requested money to “support” Hytale and I’m sure some unheightened individuals actually sent some. The website was also apparently an IP logger when it was hacked. Of course, logging IP addresses aren’t that big of a deal so I wouldn’t worry much about that.

I’ll now explain what happened. The Hypixel website itself wasn’t hacked, GoDaddy (which is Hypixel.net’s registrar) was hacked and the nameservers were changed to their own.  GoDaddy actually found out about this issue in late July 2020, if Hypixel had changed their registrars at that time they could’ve prevented the hack from happening but they didn’t.

Moral of the story: If something was vulnerable in the past then maybe try and prevent it from happening again in the future. Thanks for reading, toodles :3

– coinful