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LulzSec targets online gamers

Jacob Nthoiwa
By Jacob Nthoiwa, ITWeb journalist.
Johannesburg, 20 Jun 2011

LulzSec targets online gamers

Popular sci-fi multiplayer online game Eve Online by CCP Games is now among the latest victims of the hacker group, LulzSec, reports GMA News

Sophos said the group unleashed 'Titanic Takeover Tuesday,' targeting Eve Online's Web servers with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack forced Eve Online's makers CCP Games to take the site completely offline for some hours last Tuesday.

Also hit were the Web site of Escapist magazine, an online magazine covering everything to do with online gaming, and online games Minecraft and League of Legends.

Help Net Security, says LulzSec's comments on their Twitter account said that action required only 0.4% of their resources.

CCP Games decided to take the Web servers completely offline while they scan their networks for possible damage and intrusions.

“Our taskforce concluded that neither the game servers nor the CCP infrastructure had been breached,” says J'on H"orddal, the company's chief operating officer.

“Further, we can also confirm that no personal details such as users' credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident.”

According to PC World, alongside the DDoS attacks, the group also claims to have been harassing a number of companies via phone forwarding their number to victims such as magnets.com, World of Warcraft customer support and the FBI in Detroit.

LulzSec still doesn't seem to have a particular agenda - or if they do, they're hiding it well. Unfortunately, as long as some Internet users continue to find their antics amusing, they'll continue their campaign of harassment.

Media reports say after claiming responsibility for attacking several sites, including the US Central Intelligence Agency, hacker group LulzSec opened its lines to accept hack requests.

Last Tuesday, the group posted a phone number on its Twitter account, as well as ports for online chats, inviting the public to “join the party.”

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