LOS ANGELES — The hacker group known as LulzSec appears to be back after many months of lying low, claiming to have exposed the e-mail accounts of nearly 171,000 members of the military.
The group, which in 2011 went after government agencies and companies including the FBI, CIA, Sony and the Public Broadcasting Service, claims to have exposed the accounts of thousands of members on the website Military Singles.com.
“There are e-mails such as @us.army.mil; @carney.navy.mil; @greatlakes.cnet.navy.mil; @microsoft.com, etc.,” the
group said in a note posted on the website PasteBin.
The group said it dumped a database — including a total of 170,937 e-mail accounts — from the website, which bills itself as “the dating site for single soldiers.”
The Pentagon could not be reached for comment about the severity of the database dump.
LulzSec began as a group of hackers who originally were part of the decentralized Internet group Anonymous.
The original members of LulzSec claimed they went after companies and organizations to expose security holes and, of course, for the “lulz,” or for kicks or giggles.
Article source: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20270131/hacker-group-back-action-exposes-gi-e-mail?source=rss
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