Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Tagruato Corp site hackings

On around Nov 24, 2007 the Tagruato site was hacked.

The title was changed to "TAGRUATO IS DESTROYING OUR OCEANS", and the regular picture of Ganu Yoshida has been graffiti-ed - adding devil horns to Ganu, a tidal wave destroying a city, and various sea life.

Interestingly, the wave and sea animals all have roman numerals hidden on them, and the sea animals have hidden words indicating type of animal it is:
  1. Tanner Crab
  2. Irukandji Jellyfish
  3. Dumbo Octopus
  4. Ogre fish
  5. The Wave, which is similar to Hokusai's "Great Wave Off Kanagawa"
Two days later on the 26th the site was mostly restored saying "Under Construction" in Japanese. By the end of that day the site had been fully restored. On Nov 28th 2007 the site was hacked again with the same exact hack and was restored with in the same day. The clues of this hack where since than solved by many Cloverfield fans.

If you recall, five items were numbered in the hacked picture. Taking the first letter of each four, and adding it to wave gives you the address of the new site. T.I.D.O. Wave. With in days the flood gates had opened and tons of fans where making either "I am so excited for the movie!" posts or posts that very much related to the point of the site. Which meant at that point, the comments could not really be trusted. Not with out serious thinking anyways.

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