HardcoreModz
Lulzsec, the anonymous anti-security task force responsible for hacking
Sony Pictures, Nintendo, EVE Online, Minecraft, and The Escapist,
announced today that its 50-day tour of internet pillaging has come to
an end.
In a press release posted on The Pirate Bay, the team of six hackers
used confusing metaphors about Hitler and cats (seriously) to justify
their attacks, citing the "chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy"
as their main motivation. While the group claims that they had always
planned to call it quits after 50 days, we think this retreat has more
to do with the British arrest of 19-year-old Ryan Cleary.
Lulzsec's six hackers hope that their "movement" can continue without
them, writing, "Together, united, we can stomp down our common
oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve."
We don't know about you guys, but we can't remember ever feeling
oppressed by Super Mario Bros.
LulzSec released a data torrent
via the Pirate Bay web site that has info from a number of sources. As
reported on the Rock Paper Shotgun web site, the biggest file comes from
Electronic Arts' free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes. The file
download contains personal info for 550,000 users of that game.
Of course this is not the first time that LulzlSec has gone after a
gaming related web site or service. It also went after the Minecraft
site, shut down the MMO EVE Online for a time, and even attacked the US
online servers for Nintendo, among many other attacks in the past 50
days.
The data dump also has info for 200,000 users of the Hackforums.com web
site and personal info from 50,000 people who have posted on various
gaming forums. There was also some internal data released that came from
AT&T and AOL as well as info from 12,000 members of the NATO
Bookshop web site.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/26/lulzsec-doffs-its-gray-hat-your-games-are-safe-for-now/#continued
