Lizard Squad hackers hacked

You may recall the Lizard Squad, the hacking group who claimed responsibility for the Christmas day attack on the Sony and Microsoft’s online gaming networks.

Well it seems that cyber-karma came a calling as user details from LizardStresser have been made public after someone hacked LizardStresser[dot]su, the website the group uses to coordinate attacks and sell subscriptions to its attacks-for-hire service, the fees range from $6 to $500 in the bitcoin cryptocurrency.

A copy of the LizardStresser customer database obtained by KrebsOnSecurity shows that it attracted more than 14,241 registered users, but only a few hundred appear to have funded accounts at the service. Interestingly, all registered usernames and passwords were stored in plain text. Also, the database indicates that customers of the service deposited more than USD $11,000 worth of bitcoins to pay for attacks on thousands of Internet addresses and Web sites.



The news follows several arrests made as police investigate the original PlayStation Network and Xbox Live attacks.

Source: The Guardian