Hacker group Lulzsec disbands, identities exposed

[Schadenfroh]

As many of you know, Lulzsec disbanded recently:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/26/us-cybersecurity-lulzsec-idUSTRE75P05I20110626

The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers announced it was disbanding on Saturday with one last data dump, which included internal AOL Inc and AT&T documents.

They are the hacker group responsible for attacks on Sony, AT&T, the US Senate and a host of other corporate and governmental agencies.

But, another hacker group seems to dislike them, so they release their supposed names, addresses and phone numbers after infiltrating them.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...to-expose-identitites-of-lulzsec-members.html

An Internet hacker group calling itself the A-Team has published a document it claims reveals the identities of at least some members of the recently retired hacker network LulzSec, including phone numbers, addresses, Facebook URLs and even the identities of some of their relatives and associates.

If this information checks out, it will be a great boon to the feds. The hacker group that acquired the information also claims that Lulzsec did not really have any ideals in mind, just dumped whatever data that could acquire after searching the net for vulnerabilities that they knew how to exploit. Which would seem to explain their seemingly random targets.

Wonder if this might lead to a take down of members of anonymous as well?

 

[Macamus Prime]

Sounds more like crackers than hackers.

Hackers explore and discover. Crackers just cause havoc - which is what these guys do and did.

 

[irishScott]

Sounds more like crackers than hackers.

Hackers explore and discover. Crackers just cause havoc - which is what these guys do and did.

Unfortunately in modern slang cracker is a racist term for a white guy. Have fun going around talking about how your computer was busted by crackers.

 

[irishScott]

As many of you know, Lulzsec disbanded recently:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/26/us-cybersecurity-lulzsec-idUSTRE75P05I20110626


They are the hacker group responsible for attacks on Sony, AT&T, the US Senate and a host of other corporate and governmental agencies.

But, another hacker group seems to dislike them, so they release their supposed names, addresses and phone numbers after infiltrating them.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...to-expose-identitites-of-lulzsec-members.html


If this information checks out, it will be a great boon to the feds. The hacker group that acquired the information also claims that Lulzsec did not really have any ideals in mind, just dumped whatever data that could acquire after searching the net for vulnerabilities that they knew how to exploit. Which would seem to explain their seemingly random targets.

Wonder if this might lead to a take down of members of anonymous as well?

Boon to the feds? So the fact that the feds only progressed anywhere because of other hackers is a good thing?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Boon to the feds? So the fact that the feds only progressed anywhere because of other hackers is a good thing?

How many cases have been solved due to leads coming from tips?

This guy comes to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Search

 

[tommo123]

Unfortunately in modern slang cracker is a racist term for a white guy. Have fun going around talking about how your computer was busted by crackers.

seriously? who the hell would be offended by that? i'd think it was a sign you were gay and wanted to spread cheese on me and lick it off 😱

 

[Craig234]

Wonder if this is why they recently said they were ending their activities.

 

[irishScott]

seriously? who the hell would be offended by that? i'd think it was a sign you were gay and wanted to spread cheese on me and lick it off 😱

I'm just saying no one outside of technical circles would know what you're taking about, and would probably think you were trying to make a bad racist joke.

 

[irishScott]

How many cases have been solved due to leads coming from tips?

This guy comes to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Search

There's tips, and then there's outsiders solving the case for you. Given that the article talks about the rival group actually infiltrating Lulzsec, this is the latter IMO, if it checks out.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

The best hackers are the ones you never heard of.

That means anyone in Lulzsec or anonymous are not that good.

 

[RbSX]

How would it be a boon to any police organization that a bunch of script kiddies found out who Lulzsec was when the many of the governments around the world couldn't?

That's no a boon, that's a fvcking embarrassment.

For every guy that the police arrest (if the info checks out) there will be 100 more waiting to take his place, who is currently laughing their ass off at the policing institutions around the world.

 

[Zorba]

Isn't it illegal for the police to use information that was gotten illegally?

 

[Howard]

Isn't it illegal for the police to use information that was gotten illegally?

Maybe it's sort of like using the references from Wikipedia entries.

 

[Nebor]

Isn't it illegal for the police to use information that was gotten illegally?

Not if they themselves didn't obtain it illegally, AFAIK. If a burglar broke into someone's house, then called the police because they found a dead body or a growing operation, the police could still charge the home owner based on the evidence yielded from the burglary.

 

[Kadarin]

The best hackers are the ones you never heard of.

The best hackers are the ones who fucked Iran's nuclear program.

 

[halik]

SQL injections and releasing email addresses for lib causes is the new l333333t yo

 

[halik]

The best hackers are the ones who fucked Iran's nuclear program.

Now that one was golf clap worthy; unlike some mindless "?var=blah join select from users" sql injection, the idea of having a worm reprogram SCADA system just slightly enough is absolutely brilliant.

 

[MayorOfAmerica]

Wonder if this is why they recently said they were ending their activities.

Craig,

If I recall, I believe they originally said they were going to cause "50 days of mayhem" or something along those lines, so ending their activities at this juncture was probably their plan all along.

 

[OutHouse]

good i hope the fuckers get sent to prison for a very long time.

 

[coloumb]

The best hackers are the ones who fucked Iran's nuclear program.

Watched a show about this recently [also included how china is modifying hardware USA buys so they can snoop on our govt agencies.]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/01/16/israel-iran-nuclear.html

 

[BeauJangles]

Now that one was golf clap worthy; unlike some mindless "?var=blah join select from users" sql injection, the idea of having a worm reprogram SCADA system just slightly enough is absolutely brilliant.

You're talking about a different level of hacking though. There is no way in the world a small group of hackers could muster the computing power, brainpower, and other resources necessary to write Stuxnet.

Groups like LulzSec might not be especially creative with their methods, but the fact that they can still bring down gigantic networks, steal bank account information, and generally cause mayhem by using tricks that are a decade old is indicative of how crappy our security is.

I'm still amazed that Citi had 200,000 accounts cleaned out by hackers because they were passing the account numbers via the URL. Lazy / stupid coding like that is the reason these groups thrive.

 

[gevorg]

Now that one was golf clap worthy; unlike some mindless "?var=blah join select from users" sql injection, the idea of having a worm reprogram SCADA system just slightly enough is absolutely brilliant.

Not brilliant at all when you have governments with unlimited resources to back you up and help you with almost anything (source code of target machines, etc). Now if it was developed by nobodies like Lulzsec, yeah that would be impressive.