Has LulzSec Gone Too Far?

16.06.2011
They say they're doing it for the "lulz," but there comes a point when it's no longer funny. The latest LulzSec targets are the CIA as well as 62,000 e-mail account holders using web-based services, including Comcast, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail.

Quite The Busy Group

In the CIA attack, the group packet-flooded the agency's website and brought it down for a short period on Wednesday. Some reports referred to the attack as the group's biggest yet -- , though the target is certainly the most prominent.

LulzSec had hacked the US Government once before: attackers associated with the group broke into the US Senate web server earlier this week and posted the site's directory structure .

While the CIA attack may have been nothing more than a denial-of-service attack, it certainly could carry repercussions for the group. Messing with government computers is a federal offense, and military officials have already pondered considering cyberattacks

LulzSec has also released the emails and passwords of about 62,000 email users, although how it got this information is unknown. One could surmise that this is a list of compiled information from previous hacks the group has undertaken, but nobody knows for sure.