It looks like notorious hacking group Lulzsec have, after “50 days of lulz”, ceased operations, at least in their current guise.
Their last hurrah, though, is a biggie – they’ve leaked a huge amount of data which includes 50,000 “random gaming forum” usernames, email addresses and – in some cases – passwords. It’s not clear which forums the lists are from.
In addition, there’s “internal data” on AOL and AT&T, a list of half a million Battlefield Heroes Beta users, 200,000 users from Hackforums, more on the FBI and a list of routers that haven’t had their admin usernames changed. Oh, and more.
“It’s time to say bon voyage,” says the team’s last press release. “Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind – we hope – inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love.”
“If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.”
We’ve checked the file and – although we do strongly suggest you check it yourselves – it looks like TSA wasn’t compromised, thankfully. Would have made for a shitty birthday for everyone if it was.
This post on GAF has links to downloads of the Battlefield and Forum Member lists without the passwords included so you can see – we strongly advise you check out for yourselves whether you’re on the lists. If you’re on a list with a plaintext password – and you use it elsewhere – change all your other passwords.
As always, passwords should be unique for each and every service and site you use.
Kennykazey
The bastards got me on the BF-Beta list, but thankfully there are no passwords there so it’s not as bad as I first thought. Now that Lulzec is quitting, I guess a new band of villains will show up to take their place.
ashw92
I’m not on the list either. I think there are quite a few lucky ones among us.
Spotter5
I’m on the BF Heroes list too, but thats only usernames? I can’t getonto the BF site as it has been taken down.
DaveyJam
The LulzSec release had passwords. They’ve been removed here. So you better change everything xD
Paranoimia
I never can understand why people with such obvious ability choose to do this kind of thing. I’m pretty good with computers, but not that capable. If I was, I’d try and put it to use in a good way. I guess I’m just not wired that way.
My mum once worked with scientists in a lab, and she said to me that despite their obvious intelligence, they actually had very little common sense. Seems to be a common thing.
PeacekeeperAlpha
RELEVENT http://www.gamemarshal.com/features/20110622113313/lulzsec-hacked-by-rival-hackers.html
minerwilly
interesting article Peacekeeper.
Reality Check
Lets hope their ship they are sailing on SINKS! ! ! :D
nofi
The passwords are removed from the links in the post, they are definitely there in the torrents.
Manorhowze
Thanks for the info. I checked and luckily im not on the list,
BIGAL-1992
Their doing a runner. Good, now we don’t have to hear from them again. Prats.
BIGAL-1992
Also, I checked the list, even though I never played Battlefield heroes before, but you never know these days.
Greek-BBQ
I’ve got to make like 50 different passwords, how am I going to remember them all :S
Can’t people in the world be nice and not hack everything. Where have peoples morals gone..(im referring to the tiny percentage of the population who commit crimes, dw I’m not generalizing you all :D)
BIGAL-1992
50 ?!! Oh shizer.