Bethesda Hacked blackmailed for top hat in skyrim

Vtec9k said:
I fully support the Lulz, their twitter feed is hilarious :)

Highlighting the shocking and almost criminal lack of security that all of these companies have is fine by me. The companies deserve all the get and at least LulzSec seem to have a little bit of eHonor
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you suport them leaking everyones details? they have given almost everything required to steal identities in some instances ...

bunch of tossers that i hope get some jailtime
 
Vtec9k said:
I fully support the Lulz, their twitter feed is hilarious :)

Highlighting the shocking and almost criminal lack of security that all of these companies have is fine by me. The companies deserve all the get and at least LulzSec seem to have a little bit of eHonor
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What's their Twitter handle?
 
How long before Steam gets hacked... They've got to be high on the list.

I don't mind so much that these companies get schooled, it's the poor games playing consumer (i.e. us) that has their personal data taken and risk fraud, ID theft and credit problems for years to come that suffer.

Which reminds me - off to make sure no online shop/site has my cc details stored.
 
Athanor said:
How long before Steam gets hacked... They've got to be high on the list.

I don't mind so much that these companies get schooled, it's the poor games playing consumer (i.e. us) that has their personal data taken and risk fraud, ID theft and credit problems for years to come that suffer.

Which reminds me - off to make sure no online shop/site has my cc details stored.
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After HL2 leaked I think Steam won't be a very easy task at all.
 
Well they've leaked the data from the servers, plenty of user info along with it. Including customer and employer usernames/passwords/emails.

I don't see how anyone would find this amusing and I don't see why anyone would egg them on, they are hacking legitimate companies for what appears to be no reason at all.. then they are releasing *our* personal information for the entire internet to access.
 
In spain the other group of hackers have attacked the national police website and other gov sites in response to the aresst of some of thier members
 
  1. Greetings Internets,
  3. This is a story all about how we made Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax
  4. Media, and everything they own, our ***** for life.
  6. As you should know, The Lulz Boat stores vast amounts of booty;
  7. much of this booty we don't release as it's simply too shiny and/or
  8. delicious. As of late, certain inferior sailing boats have discovered
  9. flaws in Brink (brinkthegame.com), thinking themselves exciting and new.
  11. Too late. The Lulz Boat controls this ocean, chumps.
  13. Some weeks ago, we smashed into Brink with our heavy artillery Lulz
  14. Cannons and decided to switch to ninja mode. From our LFI entry point,
  15. we acquired command execution via local file inclusion of enemy fleet
  16. Apache vessel. We then found that the HTTPD had SSH auth keys, which
  17. let our ship SSH into other servers. See where this is going?
  19. We then switched to root ammunition rounds.
  20. And we rooted... and rooted... and rooted...
  22. After mapping their internal network and thoroughly pillaging all of
  23. their servers, we grabbed all their source code and database passwords,
  24. which we proceeded to shift silently back to our storage deck.
  26. Please find enclosed everything we took, excluding one thing -
  27. 200,000+ Brink users. We actually like this company and would
  28. like for them to speed up the production of Skyrim, so we'll
  29. give them one less thing to worry about. You're welcome! :D
  31. Please keep making awesome games, guys, and you should
  32. totally add an official LulzSec top hat to new releases.
  34. But anyway, bwahahaha... >:]
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Interesting that Anonymous supposedly warned NATO not to get involved in it's activities. I can't help but imagine some nerd with an ego is going to wake up some morning looking down the barrel of an MP5 and a bunch of very ****ed off gentlemen who have some towels and buckets of water close by.
 
Did anyone see the BBC site a few days ago regarding lulz and the NHS with them saying they have access to a lot of data, and then we had the NHZ coming out with no everything is fine they can't access any of it!

They wont be laughing if in a few months time some information gets leaked!
 
I like the idea behind it, Exposing obvious security flaws and such. Its the taking of customer data and such that i dislike. They are toeing a fine line.

Highlighting the flaws and embarrasing the company, Thumbs up.

Stealing customer data, potentially causing fraud and hurt etc against an innocent purchaser... Thumbs down..





P.S Activision next please.
 
This is getting boring fast, although I guess some internet security firms must be making some serious money on all this.
 
I for one support these actions tbh. These guys are like the disease/predator/environment that thins out the herd, keeping the remaining ones lean. They are showing up cracks in the foundations of these entertainment companies. Companies like Ubisoft don't have a god given right to harvest information, and it's a good thing that from hence forth they will HAVE to think about what information is stored, where it is stored and how it is protected.

Releasing personal information is low but perhaps its for the best in the long run
 
Sorry brennen, totally disagree with you. I thought at first it was a good thing, and yes it DOES show that the security measures are currently inadequate, but they have broken the law, and released customers information to fraudsters, claiming it's the companies fault for not protecting it. What a crock of ****.

That's like you saying the bank didn't put an adequate lock on there door, and your excuse for breaking in and stealing the money. Whilst in there you take peoples bank records and make them publicly available.. and you then claim it's also the banks fault. No, you broke the law.

I'm not trying to get on a moral high horse here, but they are breaking into (or have been and now announcing it), multiple places.. and now the US Senate Office has alledgely been hacked into, I think the may be rather stuffed. Might be a little hard to find people that obviously could hack wireless networks easily to stay mobile...

I'm sure the thrill of not-physically breaking into somewhere is good (because it 'feels' like it isn't illegal per se).. and the desire to show themselves off is awesome... but they are also picking and chosing who they exploit (i.e. they reckon they didn't steal anything from the NHS.. oh, how moral)... and then trying to go after the 'evil' corps. I don't like companies that treat their customers as 'punter's, (i.e. just cash cows.. get the money and don't worry about how they are treated), but doesn't mean that these guys have the right to try and **** them over.

I appreciate what you are saying about 'thinning out', and better in in the long term. You are quite possibly right. But it still isn't right. If you had your money stolen from your bank account, or even games taken from you, I doubt you'd be supporting them then. If the place I work at was 'hacked' into (and believe me, it's rather bloody secure), you'd be rather bloody ****** off if the thing I protect was taken from you.

Additionally, I don't believe the companies will stop gathering data about customers etc, it's the nature of business. All they will do is try to lock that data down more.
 
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Vtec9k said:
I fully support the Lulz, their twitter feed is hilarious :)

Highlighting the shocking and almost criminal lack of security that all of these companies have is fine by me. The companies deserve all the get and at least LulzSec seem to have a little bit of eHonor
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Agreed.
 
I didn't say it was right in the legal or moral sense. Companies hoard, sell and buy your details like a commodity product, store your payment details (along with everything a fraudster needs) in systems not suitably hardened and make numerous human errors which really shouldn't exist in big business.

Your example of the bank; the bank has thick walls, a massive safe, CCTV, barriers so you can't reach into the cashiers draw... They take PRECAUTIONS. If they just kept the money in a pile on the floor and expected nothing bad to happen I'd agree you.
 
Vtec9k said:
I fully support the Lulz, their twitter feed is hilarious :)

Highlighting the shocking and almost criminal lack of security that all of these companies have is fine by me. The companies deserve all the get and at least LulzSec seem to have a little bit of eHonor
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They can get their message across plenty easy enough, all they have to do is a simple defacement, it has the same effect.. people know they have been hacked, people will be questioning the companies security and the company will without a doubt will be embarrassed.

The leaking of customers and employers information to fraudsters is just a step too far, it is simply uncalled for.
 
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