A cracker from the group that identifies itself as B10Z of the B10Zcrew defaced the front page of the Computicket.com site in the early hours of this morning. The page was operating as normal by 8am this morning.
"Akt0r" informed the media of the defacement. "We are making history in South Africa now, no on [sic] has hacked so many Web pages than [sic] we did," reads an e-mail notifying a group of journalists of the defacement.
"The intrusion was detected almost immediately," says Karen Visser, corporate communications manager of M-Web, which owns Computicket. "We are in the process of replacing the page and making it more secure." She says that no confidential information was compromised and no user data copied. Credit card information is not stored on the Web server.
Visser confirmed that the front page was replaced by a message, but the nature of the message is not known.
But Akt0r claims the group has gained access to databases of credit card information and customer information from other intrusions.
The B10Z group has claimed responsibility for the defacement of the Web pages of the South African Police and the government statistics site. According to Akt0r, the Web pages of Southern Life, the Rand Afrikaans University and Eskom were also compromised, but this has not been confirmed.
In an e-mail interview, Akt0r said the group targets popular sites because they are high profile. "We attack them because - clearly they don`t have an idea about computer security and they must just get a clue." He says many users do not know how insecure their data is online. "We are actually doing the public a favour. Using your credit card online is not a very good idea."
The group apparently consists of 16 members, based in locations as diverse as Sweden, New Zealand, Cyprus, Bosnia and SA.
Akt0r says he is not afraid of being prosecuted for his data intrusions, but he hopes that his exploits will get him a job in the security industry.
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