hacks

British Hacker Suspect Charged With Cybercrimes

Adrian Chen · 06/22/11 11:51AM

The 19-year-old suspect in the Lulz Security hacking spree has been been charged with "cybercrimes," including a DDoS attack on the British Serious Organized Crime Agency, according to Sky News—no charges related to hacks in the U.S. were filed.

Lulzsec Hackers Declare War on Government Agencies

Adrian Chen · 06/20/11 05:40PM

The swashbuckling hacking group Lulz Security says it's teaming up with fellow hacking group Anonymous to wage war on government agencies and anyone who gets in their way. Everyone: Change all your passwords to ninety-character strings of random letters and symbols!

Bitcoin Prices Tumble After Account Hack

Remy Stern · 06/20/11 02:40PM

A user account carrying a significant amount of Bitcoin on the trading site Mt. Gox was hacked by an unknown party, who then attempted to sell the lot to themselves and exchange the Bitcoin into US dollars. [Gizmodo]

Sega Hacked, 1.3 Million Customers Affected

Max Read · 06/19/11 04:30PM

The names, email addresses, birthdays and encrypted passwords of some 1.3 million Sega customers were hacked, the company revealed today. The hack targeted SegaPass, "a newsletter and online game service operated by [Sega's] European subsidiary," but luckily, since the company uses a third-party vendor to handle payment, no credit card or bank information was accessed.

LulzSec Hackers Go After FBI Affiliates

Max Read · 06/04/11 08:56AM

The FBI-affiliated "public-private partnership" Infragard Atlanta was hacked on Friday evening, exposing what's purported to be the non-profit company's user database and defacing the website ("LET IT FLOW YOU STUPID FBI BATTLESHIPS.") The perpetrators? Our old friends at Lulz Security.

Bob Costas Will Blurb Anything

Remy Stern · 05/28/11 12:15PM

Bob Costas isn't just a famous sportscaster and the face of the Olympics on NBC. He's also one of the publishing industry's most prolific blurbers. Here's an incomplete collection of blurbs by Costas in recent years. [Deadspin]

It's Time For Bill Keller's Editor to Fire Him

Hamilton Nolan · 05/18/11 02:00PM

In your fed-up Wednesday media column: Bill Keller must be stopped, a new Encyclopedia of News, the LAT's long-awaited vindication, Katie Couric considered, and Gwyneth declines to launch a magazine, thank god.

Inside Anonymous' Secret War Room

John Cook and Adrian Chen · 03/18/11 01:00PM

Dissident members of the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, tired of what they call the mob's "unpatriotic" ways, have provided law enforcement with chat logs of the group's leadership planning crimes, as well as what they say are key members' identities. They also gave them to us.

Mary Elizabeth Williams Is Irksome

Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/11 03:10PM

Mary Elizabeth Williams is a longtime staff writer at Salon. Her job entails finding whatever self-explanatory thing was popular on the internet yesterday, and writing several hundred words today purporting to shed light on it. She could make a great living tutoring layabout high school kids in how to pad two paltry thoughts out into an entire term paper.

Lazy Hack of the Day: Cal Thomas

Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/11 12:07PM

Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist whose default philosophy is a mix of "Cranky old white male extreme conservative" and "a little too religious for comfort." He also has a disturbing face!