The predator becomes the prey: Lulzsec members supposedly unmasked by rival hacking group

Well color us surprised</sarcasm>. Notorious internet hacking collective Lulzsec, which claim have disbanded a few days ago have themselves been hacked by a rival group calling themselves the A-Team, and have been unveiled via a comprehensive list of names, email addresses and possible locations of those involved in some of the group’s hacking activities in the same site that Lulzsec used when dumping data, namely pastebin. The timing of the unveiling sheds new light to Lulzsec’s abrupt departure from the hacking scene, which confirms rumours that the group was forced to go their separate ways because of rising pressure from both government agencies like the FBI and other hacking groups that doesn’t share Lulzsec’s view on hacking for the lulz. The data dump gives the A-Team’s motivation for unmasking, or in internet speak, doxing, the group, and gives hackers everywhere a piece of wisdom that’s always conveniently forgotten: “The internet by definition is not anonymous.  Computers have to have attribution. If you trace something back far enough you can find its origins.”
Via: Gizmodo
Source: Pastebin

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LulzSec at it again, hacked game developer Bethesda and Senate website

LulzSec, the hacking group behind the recent breach for a porn website is at it again, and now they’ve set their sights a bit higher up the food chain. Recently they’ve managed to break into game developer Bethesda and, believe it or not, the website for the United States Senate. Bethesda says on their official blog that “a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords.” The group has taken credit for the attack, and has released some of the information to prove that they’ve actually done what they said they’ve done, stopping short of giving away the information of 200000+ Brink user accounts. “We actually like this company and would like for them to speed up the production of Skyrim, so we’ll give them one less thing to worry about,” said the group on the press release they published on their site.
Their hack of the United States Senate site however, wasn’t as friendly. The release they published for that little act reads like a major challenge to the superpower. “We don’t like the US government very much. Their boats are weak, their lulz are low, and their sites aren’t very secure. In an attempt to help them fix their issues, we’ve decided to donate additional lulz in the form of owning them some more!  This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov – is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?” If you’d recall, the Pentagon recently concluded that could be considered an act of war. There’s still no official response out of the White House, but at this point in time it’s probably safe to say that the group is treading in really dangerous waters.
Source: Lulzsec (1), Lulzsec (2), Bethesda

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LulzSec strikes again, releases 26,000 passwords associated with porn site

 

In an act that shows that they’re not above hacking anything for the lulz, notorious hacking group LulzSec has hacked and exposed 26,000 usernames and passwords associated with a porn website. Not content on merely hacking the site, the group also managed to snag the credentials of 55 administrators on other adult websites. After exposing the accounts, LulzSec then told its followers on its Twitter account to try and log-in to Facebook using the exposed usernames and passwords of the exposed accounts, and tell friends and loved ones about the user’s porn habits.
Facebook was quickly alerted to the threat however, and has since reset the passwords of the accounts associated with the email addresses that were released. If there’s anything to be learned from this unfortunate (but hilarious) incident is that users shouldn’t recycle passwords. Keep two, even three passwords across your online identities, and use a mix of characters and numbers to make guessing it harder. It’s some pretty basic stuff, but then again you’ll never know where the hackers will strike next.
Source: Sophos

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