The first victims of identity fraud as a result of hacks of LulzSec have reported. The group seemed to initially have a higher goal to have, but now that search seems, crumbles to the public at large the understanding for this computer hacker group.
LulzSec has Thursday a file is released containing the addresses and passwords of more than 60,000 people, the majority coming from the United States. Although the file has since been removed by Mediafire, a free hosting service for files, it is frequently downloaded.
Because still many people for various services to use the same password, others with the published data to start. Via Twitter let different ones among them know that they are with the data had access to other data and services, including mailboxes, Twitter, and Amazon accounts.
Now also published the first reports of people financially harmed by the publication of their credentials. So is there a Tweeter that LulzSec thanks to the obtained access to a PayPal account with a credit balance of 250 British pounds. ComputerWorld also has someone spoken to whose Amazon account was abused to a new iPhone to order.
It is not clear where the new list data comes from. It has all the appearance of a combination of a few of the smaller hacks. On the internet is now a searchable copy of the data surfaced that people can see if their details are revealed. The passwords are garbled. From a quick search it appears that the list 22 .en-addresses and some .be-mail addresses.
Earlier this week, LulzSec in the news when the group of some websites, including some gamesites and that of the CIA, platlegde with ddos attacks. Although the group in the beginning, despite the unorthodox method, the necessary goodwill could count on the public at large, seems to LulzSec, that goodwill is now rapidly becoming to lose. Where the group previously mainly aim seemed to be to the subject security on the map, there seems to be now no more to be of a higher purpose.
From a earlier this week held sample via a poll on Tweakers.net it appears that just under a third of the more than 15,000 voters of the opinion that the actions of LulzSec not very elegant earn, but something to prove. This percentage was considerably higher before the computer hacker group also decided to ddos attacks to perform.