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Anonymous Splinter Group Implicated in Game Company Hack
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 15:48:58 -0500 (CDT)
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/05/anonymous-splinter-group-implicated-in-game-company-hack/ The Web sites for computer game giant Eidos Interactive and one of its biggest titles - Deus Ex - were defaced and plundered on Wednesday in what appears to have been an attack from a splinter cell of the hacktivist group Anonymous. The hack comes just days after entertainment giant Sony told Congress that Anonymous members may have been responsible for break-ins that compromised personal information on more than 100 million customers of its PlayStation Network and other services. [..] KrebsOnSecurity.com obtained an archived copy of the attackers. online chatter as they were covering their tracks from compromising the sites. A hacker using the alias "ev0" discusses having defaced the sites and downloading some 9,000 resumes from Eidos. ev0 and other hackers discuss leaking "src," which may refer to source code for Deus Ex or other Eidos games. In a separate conversation, the hackers also say they have stolen information on at least 80,000 Deus Ex users and that they plan to release the data on file-sharing networks. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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