Battlefield Heroes Beta Database Compromised
From Rockpapershotgun.com:
LulzSec, the hacker group who have claimed responsibility for many of the high profile attacks on gaming companies, publishers, and even the CIA, have declared their work is done, their time is up, and they’re off. Apparently it was always intended to be a 50 day voyage aboard their Lulzboat, and it has come to an end. They believe they have revitalised the Antisec Movement, and entertained themselves along the way. Which they claim, albeit in hindsight, was always their goal. But whatever their reasons, their goodbye comes with perhaps their biggest release of data yet. It’s going to be messy. This one contains 550,000 Battlefield Heroes Beta users’ details, and the details of 50,000 users from “random gaming forums”.
You can see the full list of what’s released in this farewell below, but the ones to worry about are if you’re registered on the Battlefield Heroes beta, registered to Hackforums.net, or one of the 50,000 who have been picked up from whichever gaming forums they went after. If you’re worried, just reset your passwords immediately, and if you’ve been so daft as to use the same password elsewhere, for goodness sake go change them anywhere important.
The claim of always being motivated by AntiSec and with a 50 day plan seems a little dubious, since they gave no hints that their reign of error would be so finite. Rather the loudest aspect of their legacy became DDOS attacks on various minor and major sites, which led to a lot of other groups questioning their abilities. The response of releasing 62,000 unsourced email addresses and their accompanying passwords was certainly an evocative one. While clearly adept – they’ve released internal data from Sony, Arizona government, Nintendo, and so on – the reputation was muddied by taking down easy targets such as indie developers, such as Mojang’s Minecraft. It’s arguable that their full list of releases will not be what they’re remembered for.
However, what they certainly managed to do was create lulz for themselves along the way. Which is of course the same as saying they succeeded in upsetting and pissing off a huge number of people over the last month and a half. And while it’s tempting to categorise them as either griefer anarchists, or amoral crusaders, they fell neatly into neither camp. Instead their actions were more true to the lulz-seekers than most analysts and victims ever get to grips with. They just entertained themselves, whether that was by upsetting a group of gamers on a forum, or by making political statements. Not a form of entertainment the majority can identify with, or perhaps even understand, but one that meant no fixed ideology was driving them beyond seeing what was next.
There is a hint of purpose in their closing statements – one I suspect they’d not have been able to claim as their eventual goal when they started, but who knows,
You can read the rest of the article from the source link below. One thing is for sure though, to play it safe, it may be wise for the Heroe players to change their passwords.
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LulzSec, the hacker group who have claimed responsibility for many of the high profile attacks on gaming companies, publishers, and even the CIA, have declared their work is done, their time is up, and they’re off. Apparently it was always intended to be a 50 day voyage aboard their Lulzboat, and it has come to an end. They believe they have revitalised the Antisec Movement, and entertained themselves along the way. Which they claim, albeit in hindsight, was always their goal. But whatever their reasons, their goodbye comes with perhaps their biggest release of data yet. It’s going to be messy. This one contains 550,000 Battlefield Heroes Beta users’ details, and the details of 50,000 users from “random gaming forums”.
You can see the full list of what’s released in this farewell below, but the ones to worry about are if you’re registered on the Battlefield Heroes beta, registered to Hackforums.net, or one of the 50,000 who have been picked up from whichever gaming forums they went after. If you’re worried, just reset your passwords immediately, and if you’ve been so daft as to use the same password elsewhere, for goodness sake go change them anywhere important.
The claim of always being motivated by AntiSec and with a 50 day plan seems a little dubious, since they gave no hints that their reign of error would be so finite. Rather the loudest aspect of their legacy became DDOS attacks on various minor and major sites, which led to a lot of other groups questioning their abilities. The response of releasing 62,000 unsourced email addresses and their accompanying passwords was certainly an evocative one. While clearly adept – they’ve released internal data from Sony, Arizona government, Nintendo, and so on – the reputation was muddied by taking down easy targets such as indie developers, such as Mojang’s Minecraft. It’s arguable that their full list of releases will not be what they’re remembered for.
However, what they certainly managed to do was create lulz for themselves along the way. Which is of course the same as saying they succeeded in upsetting and pissing off a huge number of people over the last month and a half. And while it’s tempting to categorise them as either griefer anarchists, or amoral crusaders, they fell neatly into neither camp. Instead their actions were more true to the lulz-seekers than most analysts and victims ever get to grips with. They just entertained themselves, whether that was by upsetting a group of gamers on a forum, or by making political statements. Not a form of entertainment the majority can identify with, or perhaps even understand, but one that meant no fixed ideology was driving them beyond seeing what was next.
There is a hint of purpose in their closing statements – one I suspect they’d not have been able to claim as their eventual goal when they started, but who knows,
“Behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we’ve gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don’t stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.”
You can read the rest of the article from the source link below. One thing is for sure though, to play it safe, it may be wise for the Heroe players to change their passwords.
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