Lulzsec claim to have the 2011 uk census data.

[joe_90]

Fallout/backpeddling incoming..

http://pastebin.com/K1nerhk0

[joe_90]

Tonsko said:

Hm. I can't view the link as it's blocked, however Lockheed Martin (LHM) are the ones who got the contract for the data processing, and LHM were done on 28/5/11 using the RSA compromise exposed on 17/3/11. LHM claimed no 'secret' data was stolen (i.e. all their defence contractor work) but nothing was said as far as I can see about the census data.

The only thing that doesn't gel with this claim is that the Pentagon and LHM claimed the attack originated in China (denied by Chinese) and was centred around IP and sensitive military info.

We can infer a few things from this, either: Lulzsec are fibbing; have contact with Chinese groups (or have members in China); have counter-hacked them to get this data, or the breach wasn't from China in the first place but actually from the Lulzsec team. Boudn to be a few other factors I haven't considered.

not 100% sure what you are saying, but LS have a massive botnet (global) I suspect, and would jump from server to server before attacking a site (maybe from China?) so its possible the last ip logged was China, but that was hopped too over 10+ nodes first.

[joe_90]

Tonsko said:

Anything is possible! I would say though that botnets are usually used for DDoS. I guess they could be used as data relays for a specific reason, since you have control of the zombie, why not? Not heard of that though. That's not to say it hasn't happened of course

Yep.. but if you install the bot sw, they it will also have a backdoor to control it, run shell commands etc..

[joe_90]

DWP said:

Are we surprised a 19 year old, beat the system? Dear God the incompetence is so huge as to be beyond satire.

not lulzsec, just ran an irc server which lulzsec had a channel on..

from ttter:

FYI all members of lulzsec are safe. ryan Clearly has little to do with lulzsec besides running irc.lulzsec.org. Media needs to fix story