Thread: Article: BioWare latest target in hacking spree

Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites ? including our community forums, statistics site for Brink, and here on the blog.

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Someone has to sort these dickheads out. It's obviously the same dudes.

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Why are they fucking with the games (houses) man!!!

Seriously. It's one thing to do it in protest, it's another to do it for the sake of it.

They do it for the lulz... They hit EVE Online, Minecraft and a few others today - taking requests from a phoneline like a radio station...

Titanic Takeover Tuesday: LulzSec's busy day of hacking escapades

Lulz Security, the hacking group apparently motivated by nothing more than their desire to laugh at the mayhem they cause, has had a busy day in an event they called Titanic Takeover Tuesday. Taking a break from their dumps of user data and server break-ins, today saw the group perform a bunch of distributed denial of service attacks against a range of targets.

First up?and still only intermittently available at the time of writing?was gaming magazine The Escapist, with no apparent reason for the attack. LulzSec boasted that taking down the site required just 0.4 percent of its DDoS capacity.

Next in line were the login servers for the game EVE Online. The effect of this attack was to bring down the EVE Online website at the same time, though LulzSec insists that this was not the actual target. In response to the DDoS, CCP Games, makers of EVE, have taken all their systems offline, for fear that they might be hacked. The company has also issued a statement to assure customers that their personal information remains secure.

The third target?and the only one for which the group has offered a rationale beyond "lulz"?is an IT security company named Finfisher. Their site was taken down, briefly, because "apparently they sell monitoring software to the government or some shit like that."

Gamers were once more in the crosshairs with the fourth target; more login servers, this time for Minecraft. Just as with EVE Online, going after the login servers also took out the game's website.

The pattern was repeated for the fifth target; login servers for the game League of Legends were knocked offline, a move which also brought down the game's website.

The result of all this? Lot of enraged gamers complaining about the downtime, and hence, many lulz for Lulz Security. Going after gaming targets hasn't made the group universally popular; posters on 4chan's /b/ forum, who might normally be sympathetic to lulz-motivated shenanigans, attempted to hunt LulzSec down. LulzSec dismissed the "/b/tards" as "damn furries," saying that they were the cream of the /b/ crop from 2005, distancing themselves from the /b/tards of today.

I think it's great, as long as they're not stealing details.

These games are providing a service, often subscription ones, thus they should ensure they're prepared and equipped to handle these sorts of attacks.

This is merely highlighting incompetance, and it's insulting. These developers are taking consumers for a ride - what we're paying for isn't even adequately protected.

Who is behind the hacks? (FAQ) | InSecurity Complex - CNET News

Oh noes they pissed off 4chan I sense an internet warz coming.

Originally Posted by morge

Oh noes they pissed off 4chan I sense an internet warz coming.

The internet apocalypse o noesss
Puts a new meaning to keyboard warriour