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[liquidtmd]

This is beautiful

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30896765

Hacking group Lizard Squad has been hit by an embarrassing attack that exposed the entire database of people who signed up to use its services.

The group claimed to have knocked the Xbox and PlayStation gaming networks offline over Christmas.

Soon after, it set up a website that let anyone who paid use its software to deluge other sites with data.

The attack that exposed the customer list is one of several aimed at the group and its tools.

More at link

Maybe someone should keep hacking Lizard Squad so maybe they'll start taking their online security seriously?

Script kiddy me if old

 

[Madao]

that's cold blooded.

 

[JazzmanZ]

irony alert.

 

[Kouriozan]

I smell conspiracy theory

 

[CambriaRising]

Finding it hard to feel all that bad about this one.

 

[cakely]

The attack that exposed the customer list is one of several aimed at the group and its tools.

That's a redundant statement.

 

[brandonh83]

That's a redundant statement.

Fantastic.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Good old fashioned irony.

 

[NZerker12]

All I have to say is:

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Fascinating...maybe they'll warm up in The Sun.

I'm certainly impressed at how quick these hacker circles rise up and then burn out. Compare all this with geologic evolution on Earth and you'll feel what I mean.

 

[NIN90]

That's a redundant statement.

Nice.

 

[LilWayneSuckz]

Lovely, absolutely lovely...

Hopefully they continue to get hacked and arrested until they realize how stupid they are.

 

[Rapstah]

They probably intentionally left it unsafe. It's not like they would have paid themselves to use their own tool.

 

[Drencrom]

All those poor script kiddies lol

 

[Ethelwulf]

Lizard Squash

 

[Korialstrasz]

Wait, there are people who actually trusted Lizard Squad enough to buy that tool from their website? LOL

 

[Nibel]

That's a redundant statement.

*claps*

 

[¡HarlequinPanic!]

Does this matter?


Sounds like they just caught the tagalongs that were trying to exploit the same software after the fact. Not the real honchos. if I were running the show I wouldn't protect that data either~

 

[Messofanego]

That's a redundant statement.

Bravo.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

That's what you suckas get for ruining Christmas, punks!

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

That's a redundant statement.

this thread didnt disappoint

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

In summary

 

[Flintty]

Good!

 

[TheSlySoul]

Spoiler

This brings a smile to my face seriously.

 

[Cess007]

"All registered usernames and passwords were stored in plain text," said Mr Krebs, adding that only a few hundred of those who signed up had paid to use it.

lol

that can't be real

 

[Sephzilla]

Maybe someone should keep hacking Lizard Squad so maybe they'll start taking their online security seriously?

 

[Courage]

lulz

 

[stan423321]

They didn't even Caesar shift the passwords? They seriously didn't care... at all.

But what to expect from this sort of scum.

 

[Pungza]

Kinda funny since their whole reasoning for attacking MS/Sony was to show the 'security flaws'

 

[vypek]

that's cold blooded.

Very nice


Not surprising at all that they didn't try to encrypt the data, even with a basic level encryption. These kids didn't know what they were doing at all.

 

[adamantypants]

Their website may have been hacked but that doesn't mean their tools don't exist anymore.

 

[RedAssedApe]

Their website may have been hacked but that doesn't mean their tools don't exist anymore.

their tools? thought they were just leveraging stuff other people built up.

 

[vypek]

Their website may have been hacked but that doesn't mean their tools don't exist anymore.

Wasn't even truly their tool. The code was lifted from others and modified. The tools have existed long before these kids came onto the scene.

their tools? thought they were just leveraging stuff other people built up.

Thats true

 

[Crossing Eden]

Their website may have been hacked but that doesn't mean their tools don't exist anymore.

It will when these kiddies are revealed and punished.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

so the leet hackers got a hard lesson in the difficulty of managing a service for paying customers? amusing

 

[Ondore]

They were probably trying to see how many times those username/password combos would work on other websites.

Or am I giving a bunch of bored teenagers too much credit?

 

[vesvci]

"If you look at the site it's clearly run by someone who does not have much formal experience in software engineering," he said.

"Most of what they are doing is not really impressive," he said. "Anyone can do it. All it takes is time."

amusing.

 

[adamantypants]

I'm sure they didn't write the tools themselves, I'm just saying that their getting hacked doesn't eliminate them from still taking down networks. It's nice to see them get a taste of their own medicine but my fear is that they will retaliate just to prove they're still a threat

 

[Jonnax]

They didn't even Caesar shift the passwords? They seriously didn't care... at all.

But what to expect from this sort of scum.

Wasn't it scum selling to scum?

 

[Averon]

Wait.

People were actually dumb enough to give LS their personal information?

 

[Collateral22]

You guys know their tool is just a paid booter right? There are many free ones out there. The users who actually paid for it are stupid. They deserve to have their info leaked and stolen or anything else bad coming their way. It's like paying for porn.

 

[mdubs]

Brian Krebs bringing the heat

 

[Astrates]

That's a redundant statement.

Beautiful

 

[Mononoke]

So what kind of assholes signed up to use their services. Seriously, fuck those people.

Not to mention the fact that, you can use the same services for free. SMH.

 

[dwells]

Cool, hopefully this leads to the tracking and prosecution of their customers.

 

[DannyDanger]

So the customers are assholes that purchased their DDOS service?

If so, they deserve to have their information outed

 

[iNvid02]

he initially exposed this a few weeks ago iirc, anyway its good to see those idiots and the people who signed up get some of their own medicine

 

[morpix]

lol

that can't be real

Script kiddies not able to encrypt and secure passwords in a database? You don't say.

 

[MUnited83]

The script kiddies don't even know to do basic level encryption.

 

[Shaanyboi]

HA