LulzSec: Worrying is for fools
He's part of a group that claims to be behind the recent hack attacks against the CIA, U.S. Senate, Sony, Fox, and PBS. If caught, he could face years in prison. But when we chatted with a member of the notorious hacking collective Lulz Security last night, he said he's not worried about a thing.
On Tuesday, headlines blared that the "mastermind" behind the hacking group Lulz Security (or LulzSec for short) had been arrested in England, a 19-year-old named Ryan Cleary. Many assume that with Cleary behind bars and cooperating with police, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the members of the world's most-wanted hacking group fall, too.
But in a Skype chat last night, a leading member of Lulz Security who goes by the alias "Topiary" says his group—whose core is composed of just a handful of hackers—feels no more threatened than when they burst onto the scene in May with hacks of Fox.com and PBS. Since May, LulzSec has stolen and leaked information from huge corporations like Sony in an effort, they say, to expose poor online security. But LulzSec also leaked the usernames and passwords of 62,000 random people earlier this month. After the leak, LulzSec gleefully reveled in the havoc their fans were wreaking on people's Amazon and Facebook accounts using the stolen information. When we asked why LulzSec was attacking innocent internet users, Topiary claimed Lulzsec had nothing to do with it.
