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Lulz Security has no rule, it seems. The hacker group will attack anyone at will, without warning, and yesterday it compromised approximately 62,000 accounts which contained the login and password information of Paypal, Facebook and Xbox Live. “Dating sites” were also included.
According to a CBC report, although most accounts compromised were from the U.S., other countries were also in the mix. Lulz Sec has up the information on its website, and also posted said info in file sharing sites. The websites swiftly took down the leak but not fast enough to prevent “thousands” from downloading it and causing havoc all over the internet.
As for the Xbox Live situation, Microsoft’s responded, stating to Joystiq that Xbox Live was not compromised to the best of it’s knowledge. MS contends that the logins and passwords were “released at random.”
“This group appears to have posted a list of thousands of potential email addresses and passwords, and encouraged users to try them across various online sites like Xbox Live in the event one of the users happens to use the same password and email address combination,” said Redmond. “At this time we do not have any evidence Xbox Live has been compromised. However we take the security of our service seriously and work on an ongoing basis to improve it against evolving threats.”
