Post by caseagainstfaith on Jun 16, 2011 14:28:56 GMT -5
LulzSec, the hacker group that came to light in early June, continued its Internet rampage on Thursday by posting the details of about 62,000 random usernames and passwords.
"And as always, LulzSec delivers: mediafire.com/?9em5xp7r0rd2y… 62,000+ emails/passwords just for you. Enjoy," the group posted to its Twitter account on Thursday morning. The link connected users to a list of usernames and passwords, which was subsequently removed by Mediafire.
The group also retweeted a few tweets by users who apparently had either taken advantage of or had been affected by the hack, including @miraclejoe, who tweeted, "i am now an level 85 human warrior on mal'ganis server," apparently indicating that he had used a login name and password to gain access to a World of Warcrack account.
Users apparently used the usernames and passwords to change profile pictures on dating accounts to pictures of penises. One user complained that his Gmail username and password had been leaked, and that that had led to his Twitter, Hotmail and Facebook accounts being compromised. Other pictures posted also showed apparent evidence of Facebook accounts being hacked.
Gizmodo claimed that it had an automated script to check an email address against the database, to determine if that email address (and related passwords) had been publicly leaked.
The site's authors also took time to respond to "aspiring lulzicians" via what they called "TwitterTimeoutThursday" via quotes like these: "Turtles have DDoS shells and so do we, so naturally turtles are our friends in the world of lizard-splitting Freemason intrusions."
"And as always, LulzSec delivers: mediafire.com/?9em5xp7r0rd2y… 62,000+ emails/passwords just for you. Enjoy," the group posted to its Twitter account on Thursday morning. The link connected users to a list of usernames and passwords, which was subsequently removed by Mediafire.
The group also retweeted a few tweets by users who apparently had either taken advantage of or had been affected by the hack, including @miraclejoe, who tweeted, "i am now an level 85 human warrior on mal'ganis server," apparently indicating that he had used a login name and password to gain access to a World of Warcrack account.
Users apparently used the usernames and passwords to change profile pictures on dating accounts to pictures of penises. One user complained that his Gmail username and password had been leaked, and that that had led to his Twitter, Hotmail and Facebook accounts being compromised. Other pictures posted also showed apparent evidence of Facebook accounts being hacked.
Gizmodo claimed that it had an automated script to check an email address against the database, to determine if that email address (and related passwords) had been publicly leaked.
The site's authors also took time to respond to "aspiring lulzicians" via what they called "TwitterTimeoutThursday" via quotes like these: "Turtles have DDoS shells and so do we, so naturally turtles are our friends in the world of lizard-splitting Freemason intrusions."
source - www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387132,00.asp
If the mods think this is better in science and technology feel free to move it, I just thought this news was big and curious if anyone here was effected by this? There is a link in the source to found out if your data was compromised in the leak.
