Bethesda has confirmed that sites connected to the recently released Brink have been hacked into and that personal info has been compromised. No financial data was stores on them, so you only have to worry about your emails and passwords.
The hack was telegraphed by the Twitter account of Lulz Security, a group seemingly devoted to hacking into videogame publisher sites for no reason other than amusement. According to the account, LulzSec "did it because they couldn't stop us."
That's another company done. How many more before enough Lulz have been extracted to satisfy? That remains to be seen.
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12:20 PM on 06.13.2011 | 
That seems lke a good sociopathic reason.
Two things I want to say. If a burglar enter my house and take anything it do not belong to them, it does not matter if my door was open or I had the most advanced security. It still is burglary.
The other thing is, if someone invade my house and take nothing, he is a trespasser, if he steal something, he is a trespasser AND a thief. So, a hacker who steal data still is a hacker, but also a cracker or whatever the name you choose to it.
If you are going to be major douchebags, have some fucking class. Come up with a good reason or gtFo.
Every time a site gets hacked you drink a beer. You'll be flat on your ass in no time.
Legislation needs to change... some form of more concrete punishment for these "break and enter" type intrusions. The laws also need to be federal so that the state takes them to court and gives heavy fines or jail time... it's just too expensive for corporations to sue them given the legal costs and the fact that most of these guys are so damn poor (or in another country) that they can't recover costs and end up even more out of pocket.
All this hacking just pushes Countries to ensure that they start passing laws of this nature... which in the end won't be a bad thing.
Every time somebody says that "they" deserve to be ass raped in prision, a site gets hacked. Once again, on the internet it does't matter if you have muscles coming out of your ears, you're still an ant. Get used to it.
I know it sounds rude when I say it like that, but I'm saying it as plainly as I can. It's common knowldege that you respect people that are bigger than you and in return they won't stamp you into the ground.
Well, that certainly sounds like a completely valid reason. Now please excuse me while I go punch an old lady in the face
America FUCK YEAH.
Can't wait till these kids get caught.
Unfortunately, this is the internet, where brains will always beat brawn.
I know it sounds like I'm defending them, but I'm not. I'm just saying things how I see them.
Sincerely hope with all the hacker fatigue (between this group & all the chaos from Sony/PSN) that people just start turning these groups to the law to apprehend instead of supporting them.
And I couldn't agree more, Elsa. I hope it doesn't come to that. Brains are hard to clean up...so sticky. :)
I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. I'm on my lunch break and don't really have time to think so much before I type and publish. Usually I'd type something like that and just click the "X" to close the window without posting it just to see my thoughts in physical form.
This scares me, honestly. I can kind of understand why they would want to target games companies (even though I don't condone it), but why release their users' personal information? That's just...for lack of a better word, mean.
10/06/11
Pron.com user database | http
06/06/11
Sownage™ 2 press release | http | torrent
Scedev.net source code | http | torrent
Sony BMG internal network maps | http | torrent
03/06/11
Fuck FBI Friday™ press release | http | torrent
Infragard Atlanta users database | http | torrent
Karim dox | http | torrent
Karim IRC log | http | torrent
Karim emails | torrent
Nintendo.com webserver configuration | http
Unveillance secret conference | http
02/06/11
Sownage™ press release | http | torrent
Sownage™ summary | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com AutoTrader users database | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com Summer of Restless Beauty users database | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com Sony Wonder coupons database | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com Sony Wonder music codes database | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com Seinfeld Del Boca Vista database | http | torrent
Sonypictures.com database tables | http | torrent
Sonybmg.nl partners & admins database, + layout | http | torrent
Sonybmg.be users database | http | torrent
30/05/11
PBS.org defacement (pbs.org/lulz) snapshot | http
PBS.org defacement (fake Tupac article) snapshot | http
PBS.org internal hosts | http
PBS.org database list | http
PBS.org staffers database | http
PBS.org authors database | http
PBS.org pressroom users database | http
PBS.org stations database | http
PBS.org MySQL users database | http
23/05/11
Sonymusic.co.jp database | http
15/05/11
UK ATM database | http
10/05/11
Fox.com innerworkings | http
Fox.com/sales database (SQL) | http
Fox.com/sales database (txt) | http
Fox.com/sales database cracked passwords | http
07/05/11
X Factor contestants database (SQL) | http | torrent
X Factor contestants database (txt) | http | torrent
That's just one group alone, other hacker groups have jumped on the band wagon as well.
When does a "victim" stop being a victim? If we have three women, standing in a line, nothing stopping them from running, one rapist raping the first woman, all while telling the other two "you're next!" and those women stand there, fearing for their lives, but not doing jack shit to protect it, are they still victims?
This has been going on for over a month now, companies have had time to look for holes, fix their issues, hell lulzsec tried to attack facebook, facebook locked down their shit INSTANTLY and lulzsec didn't get jack shit! Lulzsec was actually impressed by this. THAT IS GOOD SECURITY.
Any company has had plenty of time to see this coming, they have had plenty of time to have taken steps to do something about this, yet they just sit there and do nothing, half of the time antagonizing the hackers, a few of those companies even dared them to attack...
This is pathetic, this whole situation is pathetic, from people crying "WILL SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" to hackers with hurt ego's that feel they need to correct that. You're all pathetic...
@janklogs
He never was convicted. The suit was settled.
He wouldn't have been sued if he didn't release the keys - or loudly claim he did.
The keys wouldn't have been found if OtherOS wasn't removed.
OtherOS would not have been removed if Geohot didn't abused it by using it to hack pass the PS3 hypervisor - which is partially responsible of the PS3's security.
In the end he was the one who started the mess, and yet people still defend and worship him.
you know why your argument is stupid? BECAUSE ITS FUCKING STUPID!
It scares me that you think like that. It honestly does.
Just because you can do something doesnt mean you should go and do it. No wait! Im wrong, LulzSec members can go and jump off a bridge so they should do it!