Xbox, Sony Hackers hit by Hack Attack

Xbox, Sony Hackers hit by Hack Attack

Xbox, Sony Hackers hit by Hack Attack

The Lizard troupe piracy group exposed shameful attack that exposed all the people who registered to use your database services.

The group has been knocked networks Games Xbox and PlayStation offline during the Christmas holidays.

Soon after, a website that allows anyone who paid to use the software to immerse other sites data set.

Attack that exposed customer list is one of several aimed at the group and its tools.

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The journalist Brian Krebs researcher reports that the database behind the Lizard Stresses tool may have been compromised. Stresses and let those who paid used to saturate the sites or kick people out of bombing sites online that were using the data.

Mr. Krebs did not name, what happened in the data, but started to download a complete list of 14,241 people who registered.

Anyone visiting the site of the attack Stresses by the text in the login box on the home page, which urged people to change the password that was created when the recorder has warned.

In blog post, Krebs said Lizard troupe took many precautions to protect the user and the contact information given by users.

"It has been storing all user names and passwords registered in plaintext," Krebs said, adding that only a few hundred of those who signed up to pay for their use.

He also got the technology news site Ars Technica contract database that have been published for a short period to exchange large files dump system size. She said most of those accustomed players were eager to stop opponents play a particular game. He said he was the Stresser Minecraft servers favorite target users.

The dump database Ars Technica could spell trouble for the person using the IP addresses for many of them hidden evil and can, with a little work, to be recovered.

The looting of the database occurs shortly after the other computer experts took apart the Lizard troupe tools has been used. Exposed to a source code of a program used to attack people on IRC chat networks,

In addition, shortly after the creation of the Stresses site computer science student Eric Zhang was able to list the names of all persons who had signed by a very simple script.

"That took just 10 minutes to do," he said.

He said he was not surprised that the entire database and looting because when we looked at the site, and public access to the server behind it has not closed.

"If you look at the site clearly run by someone who does not have much formal experience in software engineering," he said.

"Most of what we are doing is not really impressive," he said. "Anyone can do it. All you need is time."

Krebs said the lizard band led by professionals in the field of security angered by the sudden notoriety.

He said: "There seems to be a general feeling in the community of security researchers who these guys are in way over their heads, and if we can not bring them to justice a handful of adolescents in Western countries that border on the faces of all, then this is a sad case. "

However, he added, that took the time to conduct research and search team members have helped them survive. The recent arrests of gang members orchid just seems harvest some of his followers, but may allow some of the essence of the members as a whole remains ....