News

Lulzsec Hackers Call It Quits

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]


June 24, 2011
News

World’s Most-Wanted Hacker Says He’s Never Felt Safer

He’s part of a group that claims to be behind the recent attacks on the CIA, US Senate, Fox and Sony. But when we chatted with a leader of Lulz Security, he said he’s not worried about a thing. [Gawker]


June 22, 2011
PlayStation

PS3 Hacker Resigned To Prison Sentence After Money Dries Up

American hacker George Hotz got all the headlines for his exploits trying to bring Linux back to the PS3, but he was only one of many working towards the same goal. And while Hotz today walks free, not everybody is so lucky.


June 18, 2011
In Real Life

The LulzSec Manifesto: More Sec Than Lulz

In honour of its thousandth tweet—and on the heels of compromising the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony, and more—the crew of the good ship LulzSec has presented the world with a manifesto, of sorts. So who is LulzSec? And is it they want?


News

Sega Hacked, Says Payment Info Not Compromised

Sega joins Bethesda, Codemasters and Sony among the gaming companies to suffer a hack. The personal info of users of its Sega Pass online service users was compromised, but payment data was not.


June 17, 2011
In Real Life

Troll Faces, Empty Jackets Populate Animated Look At Hacker Civil War

Next Media Animation’s army of computer graphic animators churned out a story today neatly encapsulating the week’s escalating hacker wars.


June 15, 2011
News

Roving Hackers ‘LulzSec’ Take Down Minecraft, EVE Online

According to their Twitter updates, LulzSec has launched DDoS attacks – either on purpose or as a side effect of a mass hack attempt – that has taken down EVE Online, Escapist magazine and Minecraft, proving conclusively that they hate everyone equally.


June 14, 2011
News

Lulz Security Raids Bethesda Softworks Servers And US Senate

The scurvy dogs aboard the SS Lulz have raided Bethesda Softwork’s servers after unsuccessfully trying to extort game info out of them. Ah well. They’ve also released a bunch of internal data from the US Senate’s website for further giggling.


News

I Guess It Was Bethesda’s Turn To Get Hacked

Bethesda announced this morning that a group of hackers have grabbed data from some of their users, including “email addresses and/or passwords”. If you frequent Bethesda’s sites, like their forums or the Brink statistics site, change your password. [BethBlog]


June 12, 2011
Nintendo

Phishing Threat Closes European Club Nintendo

Nintendo today sent a message to members of its European website saying that a potential phishing threat prompted the company to close down portions of the site, including Club Nintendo