LulzSec Hacks Senate Server, Asks Rhetorically "Is This An Act Of War, Gentlemen?"

After a major hack of the IMF's website over the weekend promptly scrambled the FBI, just as Operation Empire State Rebellion announced it was taking its attack of the Fed Chairman to the next level (we have yet to see anything here more than just rhetoric), today, the competing hacker group, the one implicated in numerous Sony breakins as well as a recent defacing of an FBI-affiliate, LulzSec, has proven it broke into the Senate's SPARC server and exposed everything that admin [e-mail] apparently was unable to hid sufficiently well. On its website, LulzSecurity left the following preface to the several hundred thousand code-long data dump of everything located in the Senate server: "We don't like the US government very much. Their boats are weak, their lulz are low, and their sites aren't very secure. In an attempt to help them fix their issues, we've decided to donate additional lulz in the form of owning them some more! This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem? - Lulz Security." And what is completely not surprising, following a Dow Jones inquiry, "a Senate representative said she was unaware of any breach of the body's web site." Well it has been breached- anyone curious what is contained in the server can do so here. A cursory investigation does not reveal the exposition of any sensitive data.... This time. Yet one thing LulzSec most certainly acquired was the user/pass combinations of all individuals affiliated with the Senate, and are likely currently actively downloading all their emails. We continue to wonder just how safe the Fed's email server is...

The hacking of the Senate appears to have been a "bonus round" to what LulzSec was actually targetting, which seems to have been Bethesda Softworks. Below is how the hacker group describes their action:

Greetings Internets,

 

This is a story all about how we made Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax

Media, and everything they own, our bitch for life.

 

As you should know, The Lulz Boat stores vast amounts of booty;

much of this booty we don't release as it's simply too shiny and/or

delicious. As of late, certain inferior sailing boats have discovered

flaws in Brink (brinkthegame.com), thinking themselves exciting and new.

 

Too late. The Lulz Boat controls this ocean, chumps.

 

Some weeks ago, we smashed into Brink with our heavy artillery Lulz

Cannons and decided to switch to ninja mode. From our LFI entry point,

we acquired command execution via local file inclusion of enemy fleet

Apache vessel. We then found that the HTTPD had SSH auth keys, which

let our ship SSH into other servers. See where this is going?

 

We then switched to root ammunition rounds.

And we rooted... and rooted... and rooted...

 

After mapping their internal network and thoroughly pillaging all of

their servers, we grabbed all their source code and database passwords,

which we proceeded to shift silently back to our storage deck.

 

Please find enclosed everything we took, excluding one thing -

200,000+ Brink users. We actually like this company and would

like for them to speed up the production of Skyrim, so we'll

give them one less thing to worry about. You're welcome! :D

 

Please keep making awesome games, guys, and you should

totally add an official LulzSec top hat to new releases.

 

But anyway, bwahahaha... >:]

LINKS:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6467131/Bethesda_internal_data

Comments

[CPL]

IT security is like building a fence around your house.  It serves at minimum as a security effort but in reality it's to tell your neighbour where not to cross into.

All security efforts were designed for simplicity in mind.  40 security measures in place, 40 workarounds.

[string]

False flag? Anyone?

Bueller?

[Tuco Benedicto ...]

 My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows a lot of ex-cia agents that say that 9-11 was in fact an inside job but it was done for the good of America.

A friend at work today said, Hey Tuco, I saw a bumper sticker today that said "Navy Seals 1  Osama   0".  My friend asked shouldn't Osama get credit for taking down the towers on 9-11?  Shouldn't the score be 1 for the Seals and 1 for Osama."  I said, hell no.  The score is 0 to 0.  Osama had nothing to do with 9-11 and the Navy Seals had nothing to do with Osama dying of kidney failure in 2001.

Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez

[SilverDosed]

False Flag would coincide with MSM propaganda campaign.

[GeoffreyT]

Isnt' this 'Senate' thing a bunch of old guys who claim to be the dudes who can 'perteckt' the masses from life's vicissitudes? What are we to make of the idea that they can't protect their own data?

My guess is that, just as the failure of the national insecurity apparatus on 911 was used as evidence that they needed MORE power and MORE money, the geriatrics in the palaces will declare that they need to raep us a little harder to better to perteckt us.

In the 'not funded by taxpayers' world, if you fail abjectly at your stated aim, you get fucking fired. If you do it repeatedly, you get renowned for being incompetent (think of Blodget or Jack Grubman after teh tech wreck) and you have to spend a good deal of time regaining trust.

but if you're the government, abject failure is an excuse for BIGGER budgets... the better to fuck up on an even larger scale in future.

These bitchez were warned back in March that Anon (and darker wights) were coming after them. IMF, World bank, BIS, Senate... they have had four years to harden their installs, and have failed utterly.

And YES. The Federal Reserve has been hacked. But that's a news release for another time.

EXPECT US.

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Wikileaks, Anon, OpESR, et. al.
Limited CIA hangouts and other false flags.

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[Arkadaba]

No comment on whether information, disinformation, misinformation, miss- disinformation but some very funny comments! Laugh or cry

[penisouraus erecti]

I dated miss information for a while, she made me very confused. But she gave good data.....

[penisouraus erecti]

I'm leaning to false flag here. Way too much info-mation gettin around uncontrolled on that there internet - gotta put the brakes on that! Most everything else in under 'their' control already so need to work on that there internet boys.

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This is the beginning of the end of the corporate coup d'etat. TPTB know the score and that this whole deflationary depression is just getting started. There is a need to clamp down hard on the general public. DHS/TSA/FBI et. al. working to manufacture consent.
All these aledged hacks have done is expose system vulnerabilities so they can be addressed what's the point of that?
Whatever. NEXT!

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dup.

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dup.

[foofoojin]

Sorry I'm late to the party.

nothing of value was obtained. 

it is a bunch of history and art crap. published minutes. there nothing in there. it was/is a forward faceing server, not an internal server.

Can you say Psyop.

[Stuck on Zero]

Just assume the attacks on the IMF and Senate server are false flag attacks.  This will give the Feds all the ammo they need to shut down the Internet.

[tony bonn]

this was the hack heard round the world.....anyone who strikes out against tyranny is a friend indeed.....

the tbtf mentality and obsequiousness to the banksters must end....the assaults on the american people by congress, president, and judiciary must be parried....the evil of the rockefeller-rothschild axis of evil must be resisted....thank you lulzsec

[MobBarley]

False flag definately because they've been hacked a bazillion times before because

SunOS has more backdoors than a Mexican Whorehouse.

The issue is not that they where hacked but that 'they', the ubiquitious and

ever elusive 'they' of dark dreams, did in fact bring it to the publics attention,

action requiring re-action. In a universe powered by entropy, you can

bet your final destination is down. If that seems a random and unconnected

thoughtstream, widen your scope of imaging.

The plutonium dust in your lungs should help illuminate you.

[Arkadaba]

Years ago my personal PC was hacked by some Euro script kiddies (actually I think they were German given certain linguistic clues). But it was totally my fault. I was playing around with some applications without the proper safeguards and I got pwned.

They crashed my system but was a valuable lesson learned. And they did have a sense of humour ;)

[writingsonthewall]

Act of war? - bring it on.

Unlike the 'war on terror' or any other war - this is a war where the state is the underdog.

They cannot compete with the foe they face, the best brains don't work for the Government - and never will.

We all take our place within Anonymous - there is no leader - there can be no decapitation. There is no bogeyman - only autonomous rebellion.

Who ever said the world revolution would be bloody?