Whether planned retirement (or, more likely, hounded into disbanding), Lulzsec, the unlovable clowns behind hack operations against BioWare, Sony, Nintendo, EVE Online and Minecraft, ended its brief reign of semi-terror today with its final dump of stolen data, highlighted by 550,000 user names and passwords for the Battlefield Heroes beta of 2009. Another 50,000 users’ data from “random gaming forums” also were published. You can read their self-aggrandizing farewell at the link. [Gawker]
Braaains
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:02 AM*sniff* *sniff*
Smells like somebody shat themselves…
AnonymousPessimist
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:10 AMAnd not a single f♥ck was given that day.
Wisp
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:12 PMthis
Steven Bogos
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:22 AMCan you hear that? It’s the sound of a collective sigh of relief from all game devs. Hopefully, this incident has detailed the importance of proper data security, especially to Sony!
M1557
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:40 PMThanks for making me laugh.
Not only is it funny that you think this, but its hilariousness that “lulzsec” managed to convince themselves this was the reason for doing such hacking.
Lul indeed.
Sam
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6:48 PMYou don’t need to believe that’s why they did it to know that what they said was completely true. Security is currently awful, computer knowledge anything above your basic home user makes this pretty clear. Yeah these guys were pricks and went about it in completely the wrong way. But yes, it would in fact be nice if said companies bothered to bolster their security measures because of it.
Ezkaton
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:39 AMThe picture sums up my mental image of Lulzsec without even trying.
LulzSec
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:40 AMYou sunk my battleship!
Tech Knight
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:55 AMDon’t let the door hit your arse on the way out. It’s doubtful you’ll be missed.
Jake
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 10:41 AMThis wasn’t planned. They’re just getting caught one by one and sh♥t their pants.
Martini
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:01 AMquitting while you’re ahead and still have your freedom, smart idea lol
Braaains
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:28 PMSadly for them (but entertainingly for the rest of us), law enforcement won’t stop chasing you for past transgressions just because you’ve stopped committing new ones.
tom
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:27 AMThieves are also usually Liars.
DENAz
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:29 AMStill hope the FBI catch up with them
Matt
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:32 AM**** i might be one of those in the Battlefiled heroes beta, or “random gaming forums”, now i have to change my passwords, asswipes
Daniel
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:33 PMNo one will miss these bunch of tossa’s
Raif
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:00 PMI call that they are lying
Seegrey
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:17 PMI hope they get treated like cyber crims(I hate misusing the word hacker) from the 80′s and 70′s – “NO PHONE CALL! YOU’LL HACK THE MOON INTO THE PLANET!”
Solitary confinment, no internet access on any computer, the computer they are allowed to use is locked down so tight notepad is a hurdle to open, and everything is recorded via keylog.
Had they gotten in, left a file detailing the method and how to fix it, and then made a big fuss, that would be one thing. Arguably grey hat. Getting in, stealing sensitive data, then releasing, while ddosing sites for the purpose of laughing? As far as I’m concerned, cyber terrorism, and thanks to how the internet works, probably internationally so.
I hope nobody gives them soap on a rope. They don’t deserve it.
TimTim
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 2:28 PMTotally agreeing with this. If you want to play noble, you break the rules in a way that doesn’t hurt people. Lulzsec have hurt people. This means the civil courts are more than welcome to have a field day with them.
Weresmurf
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 5:29 PMMy kid plays minecraft. A 7 year old. He plays it online. They have a peaceful fun family friendly server that got affected by these assholes. For what Lulzsec? For what?
Petite
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 3:46 AMdidn’t really get a chance to read this till now but honestly I feel like it’s too soon to say that the scare is over. Just because someone swears they’ll never do it again and gives some ‘good’ but ‘misguided’ reason doesn’t mean they’ll keep to it. Plenty of examples can be used there.
Had these guys actually turned themselves into a police station with the proof of their crimes and all that jazz then I could at least say “maybe they will keep their word”. However, they’re just slinking off into the internet as if, you know, what they did will be all but forgotten in a few days.