Hacker group Lizard Squad hacked
23 Jan 2015
Hacker group Lizard Squad famous for causing widespread blackouts on Xbox Live and PSN during the 2014 holiday season had its own network compromised.
Hackers gained entry into Lizard Squad's servers and stole its entire customer database, full-timewhistle.com reported citing reports.
Lizard Squad had late last year threatened to bring down Xbox Live and PSN services during the busy holiday season. The group also issued specific warnings about a blackout, planned for Christmas Eve.
Xbox Live and PSM users reported several blackouts, between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, the group, however, proudly accepted responsibility for the disturbance.
Newsweek reported Lizard Squad initially claimed, they hacked Xbox and PlayStation to prove a point about how flimsy the networks' security systems were, ''confessing later however that the entire fiasco was a ploy to gain attention - and customers."
Lizard Squad offered to help users for a fee and hack into and take down websites with the same methods used for breaking into Xbox and PlayStation.
Essentially, DDOS attacks overloaded machines and networks with fake traffic, rendering them unusable.
According to GameSpot, over 14,000 people had signed up for the unusual service.
Meanwhile, The Register reported that nearly 900,000 client records including names, addresses, and phone numbers had been stolen from travel insurer Aussie Travel Cover by a suspected member of the Lizard Squad hacking crew.
The databases were released by the hacker and these included customer policies and travel dates along with a list of partial credit card information.
The company, which discovered the hack 18 December, informed agents five days later, but did not inform policy holders or customers.
According to the company, which spoke to the ABC, it was working with police but it did not make any comment on the hack.
A hacker indentified as Hacker @abdilo_ claimed credit for the breach and the supposed Queenslander had goaded police by claiming on their Twitter feed to have hacked various websites using SQL injection.
According to cybercrime reporter Brian Krebs, Adbillo was affiliated with Xbox One and Playstation hacking group Lizard Squad and its DDOS-as-a-service offering.
