DeadLocked said:
Good fucking riddance.
This group are not heroes, they are assholes.
Stealing customer details is one thing, releasing them on twitter is another.
Why the hell wasn't their twitter account removed?
This x100. Everyone that thinks that they're heroes are hypocrites. If it happened to you with your data being breached, posted online, and stolen, you wouldn't find it amusing or heroic at all. You'd turn against them instantly and badmouth them into the ground. The simple fact is that they've made it perfectly clear that they're dangerous loaded guns that could fire randomly at anyone who they decide to hack "for the lulz". Nothing awesome or heroic about assaulting random people who haven't done you any harm for laughs (or putting it up for other people to steal and profit off).
Take for instance- would my mother deserve to have her banking account hacked and stolen from? She doesn't get into any internet drama, doesn't own a corporate business, and is just a regular user of internet services. She's just a random person who isn't hurting anyone. But she could be targeted at any time and have everything stolen from her for the sake of entertainment or profit on the part of hackers. Does she deserve such a thing? Absolutely not, nor would millions of other random people who have their data on the internet. Lulzsec doesn't care about making the internet a better place. In the end, their actions only ended up hurting users that didn't deserve such treatment, and will inevitably result in more crack downs on the people you stole and exploited the data from to suit your agenda. It was a pointless act and only going to lead to worse treatment of people by these corporations you've hacked. It certainly spread chaos, but it doesn't make you cool (just evil).
Hacking and stealing from random people that have done you no wrong is nothing short of cyber terrorism. Call it heroics all you like. Maybe i should drop a nuclear bomb on a middle eastern country in an attempt to kill the terrorist leaders. But oops, i missed them and killed the innocent civilians instead. I must be one hell of a hero though and at least i got a lot of laughs out of seeing random people getting hurt. Perhaps i should go around stealing, raping, and murdering people because it's funny or entertaining.
I didn't enjoy this nonsensical bullshit posted here every day. I won't miss it (though it's probably actually not over, this will likely inspire other cyber terrorism and theft). Giving them attention is what they wanted.
BTW- sorry merc. I consider you a buddy of mine, but i'm going to have to disagree with you here.