Computer hacker group LulzSec gained, reportedly, in early 2012, access to thousands of small Dutch and Belgian sites. That happened due to a vulnerability in webhostingbeheersoftware Parallels Plesk. In particular, many sites of small companies and associations seem to be affected.
The list of sites comes from chat logs that DailyDot hand laid. From those logs, it appears that a vulnerability in Parallels Plesk, the access to the sites and made it possible. It probably goes for a hack at a Dutch hosting company. Tweakers that hosting company be notified, but still no response received.
Although the hacker 3520 sites calls, standing in the chatlog around 850 sites, of which 561 with the .en-extension’s and 70’s .be-sites. A lot of the .com-sites that have been mentioned also appear to be Dutch. In many cases, the sites of companies, associations or events. There are between the sites also a lot of double plating, such as the same sites .biz-, .com – and .info-extensions.
A LulzSec hacker has conducted these hacks out in January 2012 at the request of LulzSec leader Sabu, who later became an informant of the American police force to the FBI turned out to be. Earlier this year, it appeared that these attacks were carried out at sites in dozens of countries, but which countries that were, until now, unknown. The Dutch sites seem bycatch; in the chats, mainly on Brazilian government sites.
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