Elance Only Has Itself To Blame?
By Anna Johnson on July 20th, 2009Last Friday Elance.com was hacked and, strangely enough, members’ information appeared on OutsourcingRoom – an international online workplace for buyers and freelancers headed by Dmitriy Okhrimenko.
Elance has said it is working with authorities to shut down OutsourcingRoom. For his part, Mr Okhrimenko says anyone can sign up on OutsourcingRoom and his team ‘cannot check all information placed on our site.’ OutsourcingRoom is, however, open to removing any account that wasn’t intentionally registered.
Meanwhile, Mr Okhrimenko reckons the ‘Elance owners have only themselves to blame’ for the security breach.
I’ll let you make up your own mind on this one…
July 20th, 2009 at 10:00 am
many freelancers going away from elance… some of my friends say they still have many bugs on their site… for example there are many cross-site scripting bugs which allow code injection by malicious web users into the web pages viewed by other users.
what’s about outsourcingroom?
I think this site will be popular.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Outsourcingroom hacked two or three freelance sites as well as Elance, including Proz and scriptlance.
Den, it will be popular site for hackers and spammers. Actual freelancers will stay far away from these crooks. Their site has been up a few months and they already have 2 million users. Oddly, they only have handful of jobs posted. This is such horsehit.
July 25th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I’m an actual freelancer and if I stay far away from freelance sites, I’ll never get a job. If I find projects for me on OutsourcingRoom I’ll join them and I don’t care how they got Elance database…
November 1st, 2010 at 6:42 pm
We should send this Hackers Of Elance message to all over the world on internet….