LulzSec Hacks Security Firm Black & Berg, Turns Down $10,000 Prize
No reward necessary, the Lulz are enough. When cybersecurity consulting firm Black & Berg issued a challenge to hackers to change the picture on their website for a $10K reward and a position working with senior advisor Joe Black, LulzSec was more than happy to oblige. But LulzSec has said they won’t be collecting the reward, leaving the message “Done, that was easy. Keep your money. We do it for the Lulz.” on the Black & Berg homepage.
Joe Black had a strong reputation in cyber security, bolstered by his selection by President Obama as the mind behind the Obama Administration’s cyber security strategy. But Black needn’t worry, as he is in good company with other LulzSec victims. The group also claims responsibility for hacks of PBS, Fox, a UK ATM, the television show X-Factor’s contestant database, and InfraGuard (notable for its affiliation with the FBI) in addition to its highly publicized hack of Sony.
LulzSec rose to attention after the Sony hack, when they broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over one million users’ personal information, publishing passwords, email addresses, and dates of birth from the sites’ users. They say their goal was to expose Sony’s weakness to cyber attack, though LulzSec’s Sony hack came on the heels of an April attack on Sony that had already exposed the information of more than a million PlayStation Network users (the hackers in that case have not been publicly identified).
