Lulz Security hacker after announcing to give their (–foul word(s) removed–)istance in tracing the group as well as to take revenge to the people behind Sega Corp attack last week, now, they claimed another intrusion, this time for a local section of FBI affiliate in Connecticut.
As reported, 1000 information and account from Infragard’s local section in Connecticut was accessed and were put into risked.
The intrusion took place before Lulz Security had made a declaration that they will engaged into a “war” towards government and organizations who are putting barriers and even censorship to internet for the welfare of selected people rather than being an allied to the general public.
Prior to the attack, the website was brought into “shutdown” status to protect the members on Monday.
LulzSec, had been responsible for the high-profile attack starting this May with the following record:
May 7: US X Factor contestant database
May 10: Fox.com user p(–foul word(s) removed–)words
May 15: Database listing locations of UK cash machines
May 23: Sonymusic Japan website
May 30: US broadcaster PBS. Staff logon information
June 2: Sonypictures.com user information
June 3: Infragard website (FBI affiliated organisation)
June 3: Nintendo.com
June 10: Pron.com (–foul word(s) removed–)ographic website
June 13: Senate.gov – website of US Senate
June 13: Bethesda software website. User information
June 14: EVE Online, League of Legends, The Escapist and others
Now, they had shifted to a higher level and new purpose in hacking, and that is to give response to organizations that they think violates freedom of speech and expression via internet. In fact, recently, they had created a new service via telephone to connect and ask for suggestion from the people to what site they are going to hack next.
They had urged other hackers including Anonymous, a well known group of hacktivists to join in there call for ‘war’ in cyber world through hacking.
Before, LulzSec was categorized to be light-hearted type of hackers since they do attacks without the intention of bringing total harm to the victims and the account users, they are simply doing it for fun and to bring those websites into shame, putting them in the center of queries on how poor their database security.
