Lulzsec!

Rroff said:
If they are smart they've probably compromised the password of some wifi network somewhere (or just used someones unprotected one) and sitting there in the vicinity with a laptop, they then connect to a proxy somewhere - probably round-robin style from compromised machines, then connect that proxy onto somewhere else and so on. Tho I've got a feeling the last step is a proxy on their website server or irc server which then connects to twitter.

There are ways these days tho to find these people that doesn't involve tracking back the IP step by step so I'm fairly certain that atleast some of them if they are operating inside the jurisdiction of the likes of interpol will be brought to justice, but it would seem that the ring leaders are backed by elements of the Iranian Inteligence (or a less official Iranian group) and possibly operating out of Pakistan, also indications that atleast 2 people are operating out of America, one possibly of either Pakistani or English descent.

It appears a lot of it is a backlash due to the US Securtiy Services infiltrating the Anonymous hive and identifying a large number of people operating under the "Anonymous" umbrella.
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Where you getting this information?
 
Hah wish I knew a bit more about it... I'm confused as to why LS is still apparently using a lot of the back end utilised by Anonymous despite LS claiming its been over-run by the feds - which is apparently a lot of the motivation for whats going on now in retalliation.
 
Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. However hackers may have obtained information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts--a very small percentage of total users. We have emailed those whose accounts may have been compromised and either disabled their accounts or reset their EA Account passwords. If you did not receive an email from us, or if your password still works for your EA account, your username and password were not compromised. Nevertheless, changing your password regularly is always helpful to protect your account.

We take the security of your information very seriously and regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. If your username, email address and/or password on the Neverwinter Nights forums are similar to those you use on other sites, we recommend changing your password at those sites as well. We advise all of our fans to always be aware of any suspicious emails or account activity and report any suspicious emails and account activity to Customer Support at 1-866-543-5435.

Aaryn Flynn
Studio GM, BioWare Edmonton
VP, Electronic Arts
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http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/6/index/7653193
 
It seems to me that the only thing they are really interested in is making the headlines. It's not about specific or any other objective (at least that's how it's coming across now).
 
Sega Attacked?

Dear James,

As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June.

Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.

We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers’ data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems.

We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.

Please note that no personal payment information was stored by SEGA as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.

If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately.

We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.

Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious emails that ask for personal or sensitive information.

Therefore please do not attempt to login to SEGA Pass at present, we will communicate when the service becomes available.

We sincerely apologise for this incident and regret any inconvenience caused.

We are contacting all our members with these recommendations.

If you have any further questions please contact SEGA customer support on [email protected]
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elmuzzy66. said:
do all these companies use the same server programs? Could it be an inside job or could they have found one of those mythical backdoors?
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Weren't they supposed to be using a method that hasn't being discovered so theres not much that can be done to stop it short of having an exceptional amount of internet security (like Lockheed Martin apparently)?

Why do they store email addresses and date of births in plain text anyway? As awkward as it is when you get your password stolen, it is at least something you can change. You can't realistically change your email address and your DoB sure as hell isn't going to change.
 
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