Minecraft, EVE Online, The Escapist, League of Legends Hacked by Lulzsec

Hackers lulzsec Titanic Takeover Tuesday

by Max Eddy | 3:59 pm, June 14th, 2011

Hacker group Lulzsec followed their massive porn site login dump and successful attacks against numerous game companies, by turning its sights to other gaming websites. Today, the group claimed responsibility for bringing down EVE Online, Minecraft’s login server, and The Escapist website. As of writing, EVE Online and The Escapist’s sites are still down, but Minecraft seems to have recovered. However, some of the groups Tweets seem to indicate that the damage may not be immediately apparent on the site.

There is currently no word if any user information as affected by the intrusions.

The DDOS attacks on these gaming sites were apparently motivated not by spite, but by request. As part of an event they’ve dubbed #TitanicTakeoverTuesday, the group is taking requests by Twitter and by phone. When the number is called, a speaker with a faux French accent using the name “Pierre Dubois” makes veiled reference to the groups Internet shenanigans.

Lulzsec first rose to prominence some weeks ago after posting a fictitious article to the PBS website and otherwise defacing the site.

UPDATE: Lulzsec now claims that the League of Legends login server has been taken down.

(via Rock Paper Shotgun, Gamebreakers)

Gest

EVE is never truly up,it’s just in different stages of being down
Gest

EVE is never truly up,it’s just in different stages of being down
Guest

Bleh these guys aren’t harming the gaming companies just those that play them, and they can’t even do something right, if your gonna take one down, do world of warcraft and do us all a favour.
Gest

kill world of warcraft
Gest

kill world of warcraft
Gest

kill world of warcraft
http://www.facebook.com/arthur.beebe Arthur Beebe

yeah i noticed they hit some “free to play” games, not rly doing much to the companies income, but yeah bomb WoW and i’ll be a happy panda
1davisboy

LoL is down I’m a player and can confirm it
1davisboy

LoL is down I’m a player and can confirm it
Jimjones

WTF, why can’t they hack something worthwhile, like multinational conglomerates, people who research genetic modification, and the like? Or even government websites (not American of course). Maybe they could hack Kim Jong Il’s DVD collection??

Or China, there you go, hack them! Oh wait, they probably are Chinese government hackers anyway. ^^

Screw LULZSEC, if I were president I’d just have these guys quietly assassinated and leave it at that. Isn’t that what we have the CIA for anyway??
Guest

actually doofus, eve online is one of the most reliable game server systems. You are obviously living under a pile of dung.
Guest

yep, all fun and games til you get 14 years with a bunkmate named Roofus who likes to deliver anal destruction with his jizzcannon.
Pablors 44

why league of leyends god damnit! i wanna play ;(
Guest

Meh… They’ll lose. The bad guys always lose. No raging gamer here. :-D
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Shan

I don’t get why Minecraft…try hacking something hard like World Of Warcraft.
Ballisti

Sounds like a first step in a protection racket. Show you can take down medium size businesses that won’t have good connections with police (ideally in small countries without much international pull), then you can start threatening others if they don’t pay up.

That’s why you don’t hit the big guys.
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Anonymous

madeshopping.net
Anonymous

madeshopping.net
http://twitter.com/PaxCorpus Ryan S. Fortney

If they do WoW I will forgive them for knocking out my Internet spaceships for a day.
Anonymous

tinyurl.com/2a7usxg
Anonymous

Or the IPCC to try to found the ‘lost’ data, or the UN, or the tracking data on polititians smartphones (how many horhouses did The Honorable X. visit this week?)

Try to be a bit more inventive!

I disagree with you on the assassinations though. Give these guys a fair trial, and this whole gig probably falls through when everyone finally finds out how insecure technology actually is. (we wouldn’t be using it, if it were hard to use)
Yomomma

Haha, if they hacked WoW, Blizzard wouldn’t even bother with courts. It’d just be straight anal rape from a bunch of greasy 14 year-olds.
Snark

HAHAHAHAHA 3rd REPLY!!!!
Jacktherat101

Attack everqwest and shut it down for 10 days plz
LeagueofLegends

League of Legends can’t be hacked ;)
best game ever
whocares

the average player age of wow is actually 35….
Guest

NOOOOOOOO! I wanna watch Zero Punctuation!

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