Some nasty pranksters, probably related to a web forum 4Chan, were hacked to Apple gossip basis MacRumors’ live blog coverage of Tuesday Macworld major. Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumorsLive.com, the site has been suffering from abusive messages about the executive director of Apple, Steve Dzhobs health and general stupidity (like “Sex Me”), before finally, to “technical difficulties”.

It remains uncertain whether pranksters in fact, knocked down at the site, or MacRumors voluntarily adopted to keep the situation under control.

It is quite obvious that this was the work of 4Chan, who gained fame and respect for (depending on who you ask) in the last year for her persistent protests against the controversial Scientology sect as a branch of a group called “Anonymous”.

Over on 4Chan in a maze of forums, a couple of threads (Warning: contains explicit language) hint at the participants conspiracy to withdraw MacRumors live and live hacked blog was peppered with declarations of “4CHAN FTW” (that “victory” for those who stepped up at the end).

In this year’s Macworld Expo has gained special attention because Apple has announced that he was the last in which he will have a presence. In addition, the signal director Steve Dzhobs bowed out of the main report. Marketing executive Phil Schiller, took his place.

4Chan trickery, it seems, for the first time noticed twitter users and independent blogs as Topherchris.com, in which the screenshot above.

One twitter user points to rumors and social news site Digg, which 4Chan members were circulating MacRumors passwords on Monday night.

This is silly tricks, yes. But it could have great impact on the MacRumors: this is the largest site of the day of the year, and this could have an impact on revenue and ad server costs.

UPDATE: This is not entirely clear who is actually responsible for the attack. We have received a handful of e-mail indicating that it may have been, not 4chan group called Myg0t, which uses the 4chan forums for the organization and another e-mail claimed credit on behalf of another community forum Ebaumsworld. Moreover, the screenshots show that one of the hackers’ message read: “We are from Ebaumsworld. We are hackers on steroids.”