LulzSec disbands with parting hack

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 27 June, 2011

Battlefield Heroes beta accounts leaked.

LulzSec has announced it has disbanded – but not without one last hack.

Its "planned 50 day cruise has expired," the group said on Twitter, "and we must now sail into the distance." A bit like that boring bit at the end of The Lord of the Rings, then.

In a parting shot, LulzSec claimed to have released the user names and passwords of over 750,000 accounts gathered from several gaming forums and the Battlefield Heroes beta. The leaked information is now online. It's probably worth changing your password. Again.

The Battlefield Heroes website is down as a result. "Service on the Battlefield Heroes free-to-play site has been temporarily halted while we investigate a security breach," EA said in a statement.

"Our investigation is ongoing however it appears that screen names and encrypted passwords associated with an early beta version of Heroes has been compromised. To the best of our knowledge, it appears that no personal data was compromised.

"No emails, account history, credit card numbers or payment methods. Any further updates will be posted on this page. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have the game back online shortly."

In a press release of sorts, LulzSec claimed it was made up of "a crew of six" and its 50 days of "lulz" had been planned from the beginning.

LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on video game companies. Its attack on Sony, it said, was motivated by the Japanese company's pursuit of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz.

It went on to hack or attack companies and video games including Nintendo, Bethesda, Minecraft, League of Legends and Eve Online.

LulzSec's decision to quit comes just a week after UK authorities arrested 19 year-old Essex man Ryan Cleary in connection with computer-related offences.

It also follows an apparent attack on LulzSec itself from an anti-hacker group calling itself the A-Team.

It posted what it said were the real names and locations of LulzSec's most senior members in the UK, US and Sweden, along with transcripts of their conversations. Has this sent LulzSec underground?

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Comments (36) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • SuperBas #1 11 months ago

    I hope these little pricks (one of whom is 30 years old and most likely still a virgin) get arrested.

  • ZeroAX #2 11 months ago

    Aaaah. Sad creatures. I really believe the part about them being virgins.

  • coolbritannia #3 11 months ago

    Fare thee well LulzSec, thy Lulz cannon did bring me much mirth and merriment.

    "Tango down" after knocking the CIA site offline was my personal favourite.

  • Gearskin #4 11 months ago

    Retards

  • rockavitch #5 11 months ago

    In other words they got too cocky, realised they could actually get caught, got scared and decided quit while they were ahead trying to claim 50 days was the plan all along to try and save "face".

  • orangpelupa #6 11 months ago

    why always come to "Virgin" word...

    did you know that on some country, person only allowed to have sex after they are married. That is the social rule, moral rule, and religion rule in some countries....

    BTT
    any URL where i can download or see the leaked data? so i can use CTRL F to see im safe or not.

  • captainrentboy #7 11 months ago

    Man, those guys were so insanely fucking cool, they must struggle to fight away all the muff they're attracting.
    The way they stuck it to the man, bravely sat behind their PC monitors, should go down in the history books....
    Absolute tools.

  • djed #8 11 months ago

    "Saving face"... As opposed to the numerous government agencies and global corporations who have had their security systems breached by scared, retarded little virgin pricks, I take it?

  • dunbain #9 11 months ago

    They're definitely freaked out by the Jester busting one of their identities. The 22 year old who was caught: "he's not a real member" my ass. Let the takedown begin!

  • Daddy-Doom-Bar #10 11 months ago

    Yay for anti hacker group The A-Team! Go on boys, fuck all those bored little pricks up with a taste of their own medicine!

    Lulzsecurity, you will be missed...well maybe not 'missed'....more 'laughed at'. A lot.

  • ZizouFC #11 11 months ago

    So what really happened is they got scared... and decided to end their "planned" 50 day crusade before getting busted.

  • levitate #12 11 months ago

    Not easy to be more hated than the taliban but Lulzsec has managed. Now to hunt them down and headshot them in front of a TV audience.

  • spudsbuckley #13 11 months ago

    Guess the poor little script kiddies got all afraid once daddy found out who they were.

    It's all "lulz" until you realize you're going to dick-in-the-ass for-realsies prison for your silly antics.

  • hippyjump #14 11 months ago

    Funny. The day before they released their 'departure', they said: 'we got something really big going'.
    Next day, bam, doors shut.
    Problem, LulzSec kiddo?
    Feds got that sad loner in no time. his info is leaked already btw.

  • hippyjump #15 11 months ago

    Funny. The day before they released their 'departure', they said: 'we got something really big going'.
    Next day, bam, doors shut.
    Problem, LulzSec kiddo?
    Feds got that sad loner in no time. his info is leaked already btw.

  • apoc_reg #16 11 months ago

    Wish these guys were right in front of me... and a i had a 2 ton tank

  • Spekingur #17 11 months ago

    Sorry but I think LulzSec taught those companies and agencies a valuable lesson about security as well as stirring up more talks about storage and access to personal data.
    If LulzSec could do that and revealed so much about what they did just think about all the hacks we haven't heard of. How much (personal) data has been stolen by people not so keen on being open about it? How much of it ends up in the hands of actual bad guys? How vulnerable are those companies and agencies to actual large scale organized cyber-terrorist attacks?

  • 3william56 #18 11 months ago

    I love the way the only support they have here is from eurogamer's pet wanker coolbrittania. Says it all (both ways) really...

  • poke50uk Verified Designer and Games Programmer, Lockwood Publishing Ltd #19 11 months ago

    Its not gonna stop the CIA/FBI/Scotland Yard chasing :p

  • Ikaros_O #20 11 months ago

    Say what you want about Lulzsec but they showed us how slack alot of companies have been in securing our personal information, they virtually forced these companies to buff up their security to protected something that should of already been protected. Plus some of the shit they did was actually funny...

  • BillMurray #21 11 months ago

    Ugh, cunts.

  • coolbritannia #22 11 months ago

    3william56, learn to spell.

  • IronGiant #23 11 months ago

    Coolbrit.. Learn to take a hint and fuck off, or carry on having all your replies buried. Either way we win.

    And these hackers were going to change the world, well until the anti-hackers named and shamed them, priceless.

  • Spekingur #24 11 months ago

    Btw, if you hack you can't call youself an anti-hacker. That just purely defies the meaning of anti-hackerism.

  • Garfy #25 11 months ago

    Which forums? Which passwords should I change? Because changing every single one every time there is a hack would take all day every day!

  • Mydoom #26 11 months ago

    only take 's 1 rouge hacker 2 expose them.

  • Daeltaja #27 11 months ago

    Gogo A-Team! That's awesome. Thank god some order is now restored and the little shites have given up. Hope the authorities still throw their asses in jail, that would be some sweet, sweet justice.

    Bye LulzSec, you won't be missed.

  • shikz #28 11 months ago

    HUGE LULZ AT DIPSHIT HACKERS who got hacked from A-TEAM ....... I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER hahahah lulz hackers u suck now go back under the stones u came from

  • Xensor #29 11 months ago

    If everything the A-Team printed is correct, Lulzsec just got pubicly and vociferiously raped. The difference between attention-seeking amateur script kiddies and quiet professional hackers. Lulz.

  • Zozzilla #30 11 months ago

    I fail to believe they've truly disbanded. A lot of them will carry on being utter tossbags, unfortunately.
    Edited by Zozzilla at 27/06/11 @ 12:13

  • coolbritannia #31 11 months ago

    @IronGiant, you think burying a comment wins an argument? You sad little man.

  • Kaminari #32 11 months ago

    They might still be virgin, but they rammed the major corps up the arse.

    What's appalling is how dead easy it is for them to crack open any supposedly secure user database -- that, or the companies don't give a fuck about their security and your private details, which is probably worse.

    As for some comments here -- script kiddies might be fools, but the real tools are right here on this forum.

  • ballshock #33 11 months ago

    Trolls

  • grussbarbar #34 11 months ago

    I'm wondering why orangpelupa's comment gets negged so much? Asking for the leaked data as is might be a bit naive, but it would be helpful to have at least some of the data, like just the usernames. In that regard, I think there's nothing wrong with asking for a list.
    In fact, I would encourage Eurogamer to compile such a list of usernames; that would be far more useful hacker related info to us than knowing that Geohot might have joined Facebook, to name an example.

    Or is orangpelupa being negged for the virgin comment? There's nothing wrong with asking for a little respect towards some cultures or religions too, IMO.

  • cheeky_BILLY #35 11 months ago

    i pity the fools who mess with the A-TEAM.

  • man.the.king #36 11 months ago

    @3william56

    "I love the way the only support they have here is from eurogamer's pet wanker coolbrittania. Says it all (both ways) really... "

    And the only reason coolbritannia supports them is because they haven't yet hacked his beloved Microsoft, arch-rival of his hated Sony.

    @coolbritannia

    "3william56, learn to spell."

    The only "spelling mistake" I see in 3william56's sentence is regarding your username, which is a made-up word anyway, not real.
    Edited by man.the.king at 27/06/11 @ 19:09