At approximately 8 PM EST on July 13th, the Oxebridge.com site was temporarily hacked. Traffic was redirected to a simple HTML file inserted by the intruder, and removed by Oxebridge less than an hour later. Some pages are still directing to the injected page, which will result in a 404 error until users’ caches are cleared, normally within 24 hours.
The attack appears to have been relatively unsophisticated, and no actual site content or user data was affected. All landing pages were replaced with the following message:
The Oxebridge site is undergoing unspecified upgrades, and it is expected the attack occurred during a maintenance period.
A handful of CB reps and consultants have begun a defamation campaign against Oxebridge on Reddit, using pseudonyms to hide their identity. Reddit is working with Oxebridge to provide identifying information of the users. It is not clear if the Reddit posts are related to the hack.
Due to ongoing litigation and the investigation into the hack, no further comment can be made regarding this incident.
Users who notice other anomalies on the site are urged to contact the admin immediately by clicking here.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
