This is getting silly now. Hackers, in their clear abundance of free time, today launched an attack on three more video game industry targets.
The Minecraft login server necessary for multiplayer play went offline earlier today, along with Eve Online and all of its related services and gaming blog The Escapist.
Hacker group LulzSec has claimed responsibility - the same group who hacked into a Nintendo US servers just before E3, claiming it did so "just for lulz".
It also appears that LulzSec was responsible for the Bethesda attacks reported earlier today. The news comes after Codemasters' database was hacked last week. Sony and Square Enix have both also suffered at the hands of hackers this year.
And so gamers, in the end, continue to be the ultimate victims of this seemingly recent hacking trend. Don't people have better things to do?
Comments
26 comments so far...
Dom Bom on 14 Jun '11 said:
You forgot to mention that they took out Fin Fisher.
You know, Fin Fisher!
Mandatory Grape on 14 Jun '11 said:
What has Minecraft ever done to anybody!I can understand why they hacked Sony and the Spanish cops and stuff like that beacuse they say its just a peaceful protest against how unfair the Sony fiasco all was. But now its just stupid, not sure what they are trying to prove.
verynaughtyboy on 14 Jun '11 said:
Just stop their benefits!
KieranTC on 14 Jun '11 said:
Aren't they only doing it in order to show these companies that they need to up their security?
It's not like they're dismantling websites.
TechnoWolf on 14 Jun '11 said:
This is just getting sad.
lordirongut on 14 Jun '11 said:
Boring, too.
dannyhulse on 14 Jun '11 said:
But there are much MUCH less destructive and obtrusive ways of doing that, (if that is even their intention)
Just recently they hacked the NHS but just to leave a message on their Admin server that their security needs beefing up a little, that's how they should do it, (again if that is even their intention, which it evidently is not)
hi0marc on 14 Jun '11 said:
They hit Minecraft and EVE. Now they've enraged the highest calibre of nerd possible. They will unite and win.
pRM8 on 14 Jun '11 said:
What, so these hackers have turned into f**king security consultants now? Pathetic.
sonic_uk on 14 Jun '11 said:
They are just scum.I'm hoping they themselves are hacked by other hacker scum who plaster their personal details over the web and then they can see how it feels. F***tards.
Barca Azul on 14 Jun '11 said:
Okay, I've a sweep running for tomorrow, I'm going for Konami, Activision or EA! Square Enix as an outsider!
JJM-NUKE on 14 Jun '11 said:
The attacks on these websites were DDOS attacks not really hacks, they just overload the servers so they shut down. The more you know.
laminated0 on 14 Jun '11 said:
I'll take some of that action, I'll go with activision because id love to see the look on koticks smug face
koimaster on 15 Jun '11 said:
lmao...so true
Red Deer01 on 15 Jun '11 said:
starting to get al lil' ashamed about how far the human race is falling now... "for the lulz".. that doesn't even justify it. The process of hacking surely can't be histerical..
But seriously. Minecraft?? I thought that game was meant to suck away all the free time you have. Yet some saddos actually managed to avoid its call instead opting to hack it...
Bibbo on 15 Jun '11 said:
Someone should just hack LulzSec.
markyR on 15 Jun '11 said:
haha just for lolz... just keep on racking up those laws your breaking, just rack them up......
kreemi on 15 Jun '11 said:
Just ignore them CVG, Please!!!!
Don't encourage them,
mogwatch on 15 Jun '11 said:
They hacked the NHS and just left a message to beef up there security? Now why would someone want to Hack the NHS website anyway? there isnt a national database of patient registers or anything its done by trust. Doesnt seem any likelihood of anyone else hacking it apart from these knobjockeys. Just for the lulz? childish, immature c**tz.
Cogglesz on 15 Jun '11 said:
Damn, i was going to get back into playing Eve Online again this payday. Everyone seems to be getting hut with hackers, how could videogames p**s off hackers t**ts this much? I thought Hackers kinda liked videogames... Like geeks do computers.
JakeyBaby on 15 Jun '11 said:
I'm all for ignoring them until they go away.
monkeyd_93 on 15 Jun '11 said:
and do people still support their justification of helping people? They get kicks from watching the internet burn, they don't want to help it
lonewolf2002 on 15 Jun '11 said:
Some hackers do move on to be security consultants, to defend against something like this you need to know how to break it first.
LiqzZ on 15 Jun '11 said:
Pathetic. It's just mindless vandalism that isn't funny. If a group of teenagers burnt down a kid’s playground they'd be in so much s**t. This is effectively the same; just they get away with it because they can hide their identities online. If it was a DDoS in protest of something, like the wiki leaks controversy, then yes I’d agree to it. But just "for the lulz" and to see people "cry" on the internet... I wouldn't care if these people were put in jail for a few years, it’s what they deserve. See who's having the lulz then.
Also why attack Mojang? Attacking big corporations sort of has some merit/skill to it, but a small indie games company? Wankers.
Balladeer on 15 Jun '11 said:
What's their justification for this? Bunch of twerps.
plain_kloz_cop on 15 Jun '11 said:
Is DDoS the sort of thing that can be actively avoided? It works on the principle of 'multiple visits to a page all at once crashing the page', I presume, but obviously any website is designed to accept visitors, so how do you actually code to distinguish between a legitimate user and a hack?