Hong Kong beauties stiffed by hackers' enormous poll attack

Fans are furious after the online voting system to pick the next Miss Hong Kong was demolished by hackers, allegedly. The winner of the much-hyped beauty pageant, held on Sunday, was instead decided by a panel of judges. Broadcaster TVB had been stringing the public along for months with endless TV adverts and pre-pageant …

[Anonymous Coward]

"You wouldn’t see this sort of thing happening during Strictly"

No : I wouldn't be watching. Yech.

[Anonymous Coward]

More mischief?

Apparently, whoever visited the mischief on the beauty pageant has spread it to El Reg, as my browser was unable to download the pictures of the contestants that, most assuredly, were included in the original item.

Perhaps someone could look into this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Useless

This story is useless without pictures....

[frank ly]

Great Headline in the linked article....

"Miss HK turns ugly" - In case anyone can't be bothered to click.

[Anonymous Coward 15]

We need pictures!

[Anonymous Coward]

Having a surname....

...that sounds a bit like "minger" doesn't bode well.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Having a surname....

With initial names that sound like Carrot Chewing the winner may well have been Bugs Bunny.

[Eddy Ito]

Re: Having a surname....

Actually the Carat and Tracy bits are their "English" names. Their surnames are Cheung and Chu respectively and likewise their given names are Ming-nga and Chin-suet. Further, I'd wager she intended the name to be Carol and not Carat but something got lost in translation somewhere.

Oh, better pics, head shots anyway, here.

[Anonymous Coward]

Bottom!

Rich: She's got a tattoo on her face!

Eddie: No, that's just a bit of blood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzvDXsIm9Zk

[Spoddyhalfwit]

I'd like to offer my services as a penetration tester for future beauty pageants.

[Anonymous Coward]

Shot down by a DDoS attack from the Fat Birds of the Internet Society!