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Zappos.com Hacked

ann.jenkins — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:08:49 +0000

More than 24-million Zappos.com customers woke up to the news that their passwords had been reset this morning. And it’s all because hackers managed to access the company’s database and steal personal information. Company officials say the hackers may have gotten customer names, email and billing addresses, phone numbers and even the last four digits [...]

Hacking Group A-Team Trashes Rival LulzSec: They 'Aren't Really That Good at Hacking'

Shauna Wright — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:57:11 +0000

Hacking group A-Team has some choice words about rival (and now disbanded) group LulzSec, which claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks in the past two months.

After posting the purported names, locations, aliases and family members of the people in LulzSec (which may be of great interest to authorities), A-Team went on to speculate why it felt the group shut down:

Hacker Group LulzSec Disbanding

Shauna Wright — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:34:26 +0000

The hacker group that in the past two months has breached numerous corporation and government websites has announced that it’s finished.

LulzSec, short for Lulz Security, says it only wanted to operate for 50 days to try to revive the AntiSec movement, which is opposed to the computer security industry.