Hacker Group Raids Fox.com, Targets FBI

[steve2470]

http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/05/10/hacker-group-raids-fox-com-targets-fbi/

A small group of hackers today released a list of email addresses and passwords for 363 employees of Fox.com and defaced the LinkedIn accounts of 14 of them.

The group announced the hack through Twitter handle LulzSec, or The Lulz Canon, featuring a stick figure in a top hat, monocle and twirly moustache. The group also hacked the Twitter account of Fox15 TV before releasing a few bawdy tweets.

The same hackers were behind the theft of names, phone numbers and email addresses of 73,000 people who had applied for information on auditions for the U.S. edition of Simon Cowell’s talent show The X-Factor, to be broadcast on Fox television – this information was taken together with the Fox.com employee details in the same attack. Earlier this week the group posted the X-Factor list of names as a text file on Pirate Bay.

The group was unclear about why they were attacking Fox, saying there were different motivations among its members. They added that LulzSec was not part of Anonymous, a larger hacktivist and trolling collective that claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on HBGary Federal, MasterCard and PayPal, though its members have participated in some of these previous operations.

[Modern_Matthew]

1. Keep up the good work, guys. nt

[MadBadger]

2. Disgusting

[Drale]

3. I hate hackers for this reason

those X-factor people don't have anything to do with Fox or their agenda's but now their names and information are out there and will be there forever. It very much like attacking a village and killing innocents to get one terrorist.

[MadBadger]

4. I dont support any of their actions and neither should any of you

This wasnt Fox News executives (and even then it would still be a shitty shitty thing to do). I'm ashamed that anybody on this site will celebrate this...but yet there are.

[valerief]

5. Fox NEWS, Fox NEWS, not people auditioning for a Simon Cowell show. Geez. nt

[Modern_Matthew]

6. X-Factor people did not deserve it. Agreed. More power to them on the other fronts. nt

[originalpckelly]

7. Why go after the innocent contestants?

This is a bunch of bullshit, and those hackers should be ashamed of themselves. This isn't a political statement, this is plain harassment.