Scrub the “classifed agency” stuff as I misinterpretated the meaning.
Correction: Smith - Benghazi was the online gamer and not Stephenson.
CIA website and FBI hacked by LulzSec
From gaming to national security
By Marc Chacksfield June 16th 2011
Hacking collective LulzSec has decided to stop giving online gaming sites a hard time and instead put its efforts into taking down the CIA’s website and the FBI’s phone network.
Yesterday the group managed to DDoS the CIA’s homepage and along with it the FBI’s phone network in Detroit.
As per usual LulzSec kept everyone updated with its hacking shenanigans on Twitter, posting on the site: “Tango down – CIA.Gov- for the lulz.”.
According to reports, it wasn’t just the CIA and the FBI, either - the US Senate’s website was also a target, but the group failed to compromise the site.
Love hack
LulzSec has been extremely busy over the last few weeks, but it has mostly targeted gaming sites. Its Titanic Takeover Tuesday campaign saw the group hack into EVE ONLINE, Minecraft, League of Legends and FinFisher.
Even though LulzSec seems to be infiltrating websites just to show how poor the security is, this latest wave of hacks will have the US government keeping more than a close eye on it.
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/cia-website-and-fbi-hacked-by-lulzsec-966715
Eve online is where Smith-Benghazi spent a lot of his time. Why is Lulz targeting these specific gaming sites? Do they think or know that they’re be CIA sites?