The New York Times reports that the FBI knocked legit websites offline in its attempt to hunt down LulzSec and any affiliated hackers.According to the report, the FBI seized web servers during a data center raid conducted early Tuesday morning. Owned by Switzerland-based DigitalOne, the server seizure inadvertently took down websites owned by the New York-based Curbed Network, Instapaper and "tens" more.
"After [the] FBI's unprofessional 'work,' we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our Web site is offline and support doesn’t work," said DigitalOne’s chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow in a statement to his customers. He thought that the problem was merely a technical glitch with one of his Reston, Virginia-based servers at first until he was informed by a local that it had been removed completely from the data center.
"Our servers happened to be in with some naughty servers," he said. Ostroumow later added that the FBI agents probably took entire server racks because they mistakenly thought that "one enclosure equals to one server."
Meanwhile, Operation AntiSec continues on as Anonymous and LulzSec wage war against the world's governments, banks and major corporations. On Tuesday the Brazilian branch of LulzSec reportedly took down the Brazilian government's website. Later on LulzSec hinted that it had also penetrated servers of several banks and government institutions.
"Splendid old chap, yes, yes, quite. In other news, we're loading leak bay #1 with stolen goods. #AntiSec," the group bragged on Twitter.
As reported earlier, a vigilante band of hackers known as the Web Ninjas revealed its mission to expose the members of LulzSec and see that they were behind bars. They reportedly succeeded in retrieving the hacker handles of LulzSec members, including lesser members like "neuron" and "Redacted," and also critical members such as "Topiary" and "Sabu." LulzSec retaliated by "doxing" (or rooting out) the very person who leaked the information to the Web Ninjas.
"This is Marshal Webb, also known as "[redacted]" in the "#pure-elite" IRC logs you no doubt have enjoyed," the group wrote to the FBI. "He was involved in the hacking of the game "Dues Ex" (sic) and was/is involved in countless other cybercrimes. Also, he tried to snitch on us. Therefore we just did your job for you with great ease. This moron is trying to flee the country in order to avoid serious punishment. Hunt him down... "
Hacking group TeamPoison has also claimed LulzSec blood by acquiring the names, addresses and pictures of the LulzSec team. "No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so."
Getting a headache from all this hacking talk? You're not alone. Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski said that the hack on Sony's PlayStation Network was a bad experience for the entire gaming industry. "It’s just a shame," he admitted. "It cost [developers] an untold amount of money; I know developers who couldn’t put their betas out there because of it. I mean, it was a major problem. So it’s pretty scary to be a game developer, especially when you talk about there being a connected future."
Source: http://anonops.blogspot.com/
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