Lizard Squad lols

[Memnoch]

Ok, so after Lizard squad making themselves known to the media, and obviously infamous to gamers, they decided to open their efforts to the public. It has been fun apparently. all information is from this article : http://www.bbc.com/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.

Anyone visiting the Stresser site was warned about the attack by text on the main page's login box which urged people to change the password they created when they registered.

"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.

Ars Technica said the dump of the database could spell problems for anyone who had used it because the IP addresses of many of them were poorly obscured and could, with a little work, be recovered.

The plundering of the database comes soon after other computer experts took apart the tools that Lizard Squad has been using. One exposed the source code of a program used to attack people on IRC chat networks,

In addition, soon after the Stresser site was created, computer science student Eric Zhang managed to enumerate the names of all the people who had signed up using a very simple script.

"That took just 10 minutes to do," he said.

He said he was not surprised that the entire database was plundered because when he looked at the site, public access to the server behind it had not been closed off.

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

Mr Krebs said Lizard Squad was being targeted by security professionals irked by their sudden notoriety.

He said: "There seems to be a general sense in the security research community that these guys are in way over their heads, and that if we can't bring to justice a bunch of teenagers in Western nations who are rubbing it in everyone's faces, then that's a sad state of affairs."

 

 

I find this pretty comical to be honest as they did sound like they were the best thing since dinosaurs ruled the earth.

To find out more about this amazing group of individuals, I leave you with some of the forum links :

https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/22965-lizard-squad-member-arrested/

https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/22784-anonymous-declares-war-on-lizard-squad-hacker-team-your-thoughts-on-the-controversy/

And of course, gotas blog where he descibes such a dark christmas !

https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/22779-gotas-blogs-gamings-dark-christmas/

[damon8r351]

Especially embarrassing that they got their info stolen like this since they're supposed to be "l33t haxxors" and all.

[MMDE]

Let's put it like this, what this Eric Zhang dude did here is super easy and simple to do. I've seen huge sites have security issues like this and bigger ones too before though.

[Bonzi Buddy]

I knew this one kid on PSN claiming he is in LS and he hacked his own GF's PSN just for the LOLs but she finally dumped him after taking him back multiple times, the guy wanted me to buy him PSN codes. kids there days need to use their allowance, i'm not Robin Hood Ya'know.

[Z1MZUM]

Hacking group? No, kids with DDOS envy