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Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website

Posted by Soulskill on from the kicking-them-when-they're-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Lizard Squad, the hacking collaborative that went after the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and the North Korean internet last year, has now targeted Malaysia Airlines with an attack. Bloomberg links to images of the hacks (including the rather heartless 404 jab on its home page) and columnist Adam Minter wonders why Malaysia Airlines, which has had so much bad press in the past 12 months, was worthy of Lizard Squad's ire. In apparent answer, @LizardMafia (the org's reputed Twitter handle) messaged Mr. Minter this morning: "More to come soon. Side Note: We're still organizing the @MAS email dump, stay tuned for that."

3 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Probably about Ukraine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You got it backward. Their service is, apparently, to "rent out" botnets. These attacks are their idea of "advertising"

  2. Wait, didn't these guys all just get arrested? by davydagger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't these guys all just get arrested or something?

  3. These people are scum. by Harlequin80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are the epitome of the keyboard warrior bully spewing venom at people because they feel safe and anonymous behind their keyboards.