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Hacker Group LulzSec Hacks CIA Website

June 19th, 2011 Web Hosting

The hacker group LulzSec (www.lulzsec.com) has once more gained the media attention after it claimed the responsibility of the attacks made on CIA website on Wednesday night, some reports stated. Around 62,000 emails and passwords were also made public by the group on Thursday, promoting the use for websites like Facebook, Gmail and PayPal.

In a report released by the Washington Post, a tweet was made by LulzSec that the site has gone offline at 5:48 pm and came back online by 8:00 pm. The Telegraph on the additional hand reported that the website appeared to be erratic all evening. Even though no private data was compromised in this attack, this is the latest of the attacks made by the group to undermine government’s authority.

A few days before, the group was also behind the publishing of compromised data which had been full from the office of US Senate. And earlier, around 180 usernames, passwords and email address of the affiliates of FBI, InfraGard members were also made public.

Many have been skeptical in this area the harmful potential of the group LulzSec calling them nothing more that “immature pranksters” but with the increasing number of attacks made on government agencies, they are now being identified as a hacker group bearing a political agenda. They have also been recognized as a huge threat by NATO putting them in the same which hosts names like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a report by PCMag states.

Just a week earlier, three members belonging to the group Anonymous were arrested by the Spanish authorities. Up till now, the attacks made by LulzSec were focused mainly on government and political agencies fueled by “lulz” though being an unknown hacking group, no one knows for sure where it will strike next. A CIA spokeswoman stated that investigation over the attack is currently underway. LulzSec is using its Chirrup page to publically announce its targets and this week onwards has begun accepting requests to hack sites from its hotline.