Lulzsec!

'Wes · 18 Jun 2011 at 21:20

th3j35t3r appears to be a legend.

benjo · 18 Jun 2011 at 21:42

Kesz said:
The address in the address bar had a red http with a slash through it when I clicked on that link. What does it mean?

https://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95617&hl=en-US

Rroff · 19 Jun 2011 at 01:22

Keep on your toes RE phishing emails purporting to be from game developer/publishers - got a spate of them tonight on one of my accounts (that I've never used for any games) especially RuneScape (which I've never even played lol) and several codemaster games, some of them quite a lot more sophisticated than your normal phishing email with a better attempt than normal to make the email headers and link URLs look legit.

I'm guessing this is all related to the ongoing LS stuff.

madindehead · 19 Jun 2011 at 02:06

So, it appears they apparently went after the FBI? And given now that people are getting ****ed off with them, they will be going down soon. All they seem to be doing now is mainly DDOS attacks on request of people. Bit pathetic to be honest.

Edrof · 19 Jun 2011 at 07:36

madindehead said:
All they seem to be doing now is mainly DDOS attacks on request of people. Bit pathetic to be honest.

And boring, frankly.

JimAroo · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:25

They've recently hacked theberrics.com (Most popular skateboarding site), i guess they wanted a change of pace from all the DDoS attacks.

Booner! · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:22

Wow, if this is true....bad times.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/uk_census_lost/

The UK's Office and National Statistics and Lockheed Martin are racing to check whether hacker group LulzSec had gotten its hands on this year's census data.

Such a massive data loss would be embarrassing even for a government with such an amazing record of data protection failures.

LulzSec's Twitter page has no mention of the supposed hack, but a message on PasteBin - which is open to anyone - suggests they have obtained the records.

The message said:

Greetings Internets,

We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census We're keeping them under lock and key though... so don't worry about your privacy (...until we finish re-formatting them for release)

It then warns that the database will be put on the Pirate Bay once the re-formatting has been finished.

Evilsod · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:25

Whats Lockheed Martin got to do with it?

Sounds like a hoax anyway.

Purdy · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:31

Wish they'd mess with the wrong people and 'go missing' forever, do the world a favour.

Dinkas · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:33

BBC News said:
A UK teenager suspected of being a mastermind behind a notorious international computer hacking group has been arrested in Essex

leaskovski · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:37

lulfail!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Wickford, Essex, in connection with the hacking of websites.

Can we move this thread to GD?

kkelly · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:37

Evilsod said:
Whats Lockheed Martin got to do with it?

Sounds like a hoax anyway.

They had the contract to do the cenus

AHarvey · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:38

I wish they'd target those evil online bingo sites, then perhaps I'd be able to have the day off work

Borrish · 21 Jun 2011 at 12:45

kkelly said:
They had the contract to do the cenus

Didn't they just provide the software to read the forms? I don't see why the Census data would be on a Lockheed server.

Evilsod · 21 Jun 2011 at 13:01

kkelly said:
They had the contract to do the cenus

Oh it was them? Fair enough

I thought Lockheed already prevented an attempted hack so that threw me a bit.

Tefal · 21 Jun 2011 at 13:06

Evilsod said:
Oh it was them? Fair enough

I thought Lockheed already prevented an attempted hack so that threw me a bit.

technically Lockheed just provide the text to type software.

Didn't they just provide the software to read the forms? I don't see why the Census data would be on a Lockheed server.

It didn't say it was just that lockheed was helping investigate.

Setroc · 21 Jun 2011 at 13:49

leaskovski said:
lulfail!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13859868

Can we move this thread to GD?

Looks like he's going to find out what people in prison do for the lulz :<

Kazz · 21 Jun 2011 at 13:52

Lulz, enjoy the shower room.

Strife212 · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:01

I don't think it's them, going by online sources.

matt_fsr · 21 Jun 2011 at 14:37

Seems the glorious leader of LulzSec got arrested, it's all over now... wait... we're all still here! Which poor ******* did they take down?

From the Twitter feed.

Seems Plod got the wrong chap...