Lulz Sec Hacked Into Bethesda "Weeks Ago", Promises To "Embarrass" Firm, Demands Skyrim Details

Bethesda recently announced that its websites, including the Brink stats website suffered an illegal intrusion over the weekend, with personal information being stolen. Since then hacker group Lulz Sec has claimed responsibility and are now planning to go even further, promising to "embarrass" the company soon.

[Semir]

Motherf**** !!! Leave Bethesda alone!!! You have no rights to demand anything!!!

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[iamnsuperman]

This is bad. What can we do. Government should look at this closely. This may be happening to gaming companies right now but the leap to other industries isnt so far off.

I wish the UN took some action. Its becoming a global problem

[Winter47th]

You know, I kinda wish they'd hack Activision, not cause they suck, but because their lawyers-from-hell would hunt them and their families down like there's no tomorrow and they're the only ones with balls big enough to take aggressive action and make an example out of those morons.

Seriously, this's getting ridiculous.

[EvilDonkey]

Well, the companies do not care about securing users private data, so now they get punished.

I wish they wrote a little about how unsecure these sites are and what methods they were using.

[Pacman321]

Good reply 'movements'
/s
No wonder you have 1 bubble.

[captain-obvious]

xbox fanboys where all happy when PSN got hacked
but now look
its like an infestation
gaming is going to get hit HARD

[DragonKnight]

*Looks for gamingdroid to justify what hackers are doing and blame Bethesda instead of the hackers*

[Therealspy03]

god help us if a majority of people start thinking the way you do. that's such a flawed liberal attitude.

government intervention would only add regulation to the internet that would affect us all (something they want to do, btw -- Internet 2). not to mention how inefficiently and expensively they'd handle the problem that they would ultimately fail at anyway. government should just do what their basic role is...law enforcement. they are making arrests so they are doing they only thing they should be doing.

the private sector is where this problem needs to be resolved. other expert hackers working for the companies...combating the issue.

what bothers me about all this is that these hackers probably think they're doing something noble...going after companies for overcharging their customers or ripping them off in some way...or exploiting their power to manipulate law in their favor. why don't the hackers use their skills for something a lot more noble. hack pita, hack the oil companies. go after the douche bags that deserve it! not the people that occasionally make crappy games.

@captain-obvious: uh...what fanboys were happy about psn getting hacked? that's a pretty stupid thing to say. i'm sure very few people were actually happy that people's personal information got compromised.

[Hicken]

Thanks to your political bias, you're missing the point. This has nothing to do with the government regulating anything. It has to do with them taking action to put an to malicious attacks. The laws in place aren't a deterrent. The government itself is not a deterrent. And the number of hackers who would rather work for the companies that are being compromised are drastically outnumbered by those that want no part of such a thing.

By the way, this is happening to far more than just the gaming industry, already.

[kneon]

Government intervention that will actually solve the problem will almost inevitably result in governments having far more access to what you are doing online, and more importantly, who you are. Personally I don't care, but I know many people do.

In order to make sure you are tracked properly they need to know who you are, you would need to log in securely before accessing anything. And I do mean secure, smart card+biometrics+password.
Damn near impossible to fake without inside help.

The upside is that maybe people would post less stupid stuff if they couldn't hide behind an alias.

[Nitrowolf2]

This is just getting out of hands. WTF is this sh1t. Who the he11 waste their time hacking into these things. These guys deserve to be caught for threatening both Bethesda and their Customers along with other companies.

I don't understand what they hope to accomplish with hacking gaming.

What a mess this hole hacking thing turned out. People supporting them before, where the F R U Now? What good as come out of stealing people/companies information?

[theonlylolking]

With how many glitches that have been in their games and how bad oblivion was they have a little bit of right to demand skyrim details.

@nitrowolf2 first post
The more they hack the better the chance of being in the major history books.

@nitrowolf2 second post
yeah probably not but these hackers are crazy to think they can hack whatever they want

[Nitrowolf2]

Not really. What breaking into their company data base, stealing users/company information then threatening to release it even though they said they would anyway gives them the right because the game was filled with glitches?

I doubt they are looking for that kind of information about the game anyway.

Edit: BTW this was posted before your first post edit.

[beastgamer]

I'm mad they are after Bethesda, but if they DARE touch my dice. I will cut em.

what did we gamers even do to hackers?

[Tommykrem]

I know! What the hell? This is web terrorism! Demands Skyrim details? I mean I personally look away from all the screenshots I get access to because I want to relive the joys of Oblivion which I knew nothing about when I first played it, but that's neither here nor there. This is sick!

Remember Bethesda, you do not. negotiate. with. terrorists. unnecessary punctuation.

[Upbeat]

i wish someone would hack into MW2 and make IW fix that broken piece of shit

[Takoulya]

ROFL!

You obviously haven't logged onto MW2 recently...

[Upbeat]

@takoulya

U gonna say the game as it is now is complety fixed? as in no problems at all ?

[SephirothX21]

What is certain is that people with cryptography expertise will have no problem getting a job. What can the UN do? Hackers are going to hack just like robbers are going to rob. Security needs to be increased. Though punishment for such crimes also needs to be more severe.

[dangert12]

Ok so what is there point of hacking all of these gaming sites shit you wonna do the world some good ? hack the politicans e-mails show us what fuckry goes on behind our backs that is really important stop ruining out enjoyments of life...i see incoming cost by the gaming industry sooner or later because of this shit

and there agenda?

The group even joked around about Bethesda upcoming game, Skyrim, demanding that the firm “add an official LulzSec top hat to Skyrim and we’ll remove your admin configurations from our incoming leak

[news4geeks]

Yeah these guys are just scumbags. I'm not anti-hackers like everyone else here, but these guys need to be stopped and arrested.

There's no viable purpose to what they are doing and it is completely unethical.

[BlackKnight]

Now that's some hacking I don't mind, hack and show corruption of government.

Hacking a damn game site though is lame.

[Shaner_Bock]

LulzSec is afraid to hack into Government files. Why? Because they're not that talented and they're afraid they'd get caught.

Welcome to the real world LulzSec, nothing you do will ever have a lasting or memorable impact, no matter how hard you try.

[outwar6010]

we got loads of details and a gameplay vid !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fishy Fingers]

Few months ago? Bethesda been trying to keep this quiet perhaps.

[WhiteLightning]

Details.....

We know most of the details anyway. If it was Valve and they demanded HL3 info then fair enough but a game which has just been shown off at E3 like a week ago.

God these hackers are arseholes, it's like the Government can't be arsed to deal with this or even look into it.

[BlackKnight]

Fair enough? I don't care how many details of an unreleased (especially unannounced) game title, hacking and demanding info is absurd and wrong.

[WhiteLightning]

I meant fair enough as in

Fair enough I could understand why your going through all this trouble for these details

but for Skyrims which details were shown last week...it just makes them even more sad. Fighting for something we already know about.

[Nitrowolf2]

Lightning makes a good point. He still think hacking is bad but if your gonna demand for some information by hacking into their system, then why not do it for a game that hasn't been shown off and detailed already?

[BlackKnight]

And all I was saying is while even HL3 would make more "sense", hacking should never be "ok" for getting something as silly as game details.

[Raider69]

This guy must be stopped now!

[tigertron]

God damn hackers.

[PS3pwnz]

You remind me of L4D, or some other zombie game. "God-damn zombies."

[tigertron]

I was going for Sully from Uncharted. ;)

[TheRussain]

LulzSuck are the (TRUE) bottom feeders of the hacking community.

[godsinhisheaven]

They are obviously drunk/high because what they say doesn't make sense at all. Losers in real life.

[Eamon]

I lol'd at the "demands Skyrim details" part.

[Loner]

Dont really get why they are going after all these other company's.At least with Sony there was a good reason for doing it

@WhiteLightning

Geohot got off scot free.There was people here saying he would go to jail lol

[WhiteLightning]

because they stood their ground and didn't let that prick Geohot walk all over them

EDIT: Wtf are you going on about I never said anything before about him going to jail or him getting off scot free in my comment.

[lodossrage]

There was no "good" reason for them to go after Sony like that.

Only a fanboy would say some crap like that.

Other OS was taken away BECAUSE of Geohot in the first place. Then hackers cried foul because that took away one of their system hacking options. Geohot got of "scott free" because Sony allowed him to settle. With that said, you don't even know what "scott free" entails.

They could have kept that kid fighting legal battles for the rest of his days if they so wanted. That donation money would only stretch but so far.

[AceofStaves]

There was no good 'reason' for the cyberattacks on Sony. Businesses have a right to protect their proprietary information, whether people like it or not. If people can't understand the legal principles at work, then perhaps they should put down the game controllers for a while and enrol in some law courses.

[mrv321]

Sony has a court order prevents Geohot from hacking another Sony product again, if he does he might serve jail time.

The reason behind hacking Sony was because Sony went after someone who hacked Sony... so was the first guy not justified to hack Sony in which case Sony WAS justified for going after him and thus the people who hacked Sony injustified.

[Ser]

"At least with Sony there was a good reason for doing it"

Wow, that's hilarious.

Loner, your trolling is so obvious, it's painful to watch.

[mastiffchild]

@Loner-I know you want to troll this issue but think geohot got off "scott free" is just daft. They had reason to take him to court or he'd have, surely, followed through with his crusade against them in the courthouse, would he not? He happil set himself up as a matyr, as the Jesus for the Jailbreak generation yet as soon as sony came with a "you scratch our back" offer(or worse, he made the offer) he folded and bit their hands off to save his own sorry hide. W have NO idea just what he told Sony, what information they settled over and he's probably VERY happy about that as he was VERY scared or would have fought them where you fight fair lewgal fights-in court. but he didn't and for a scene to rally around someone who, for all they know, ratted a lot of them and their methods out is beyond me.

IF he'd been what he claimed he would have played it out in court but why, if all he did was take their cash and offer no balls, fioght or emnd product in fighting the supposedly evil Sony juist why is ANONE backing him with further Sony attacks? I'd want my money back and assurances*(legally binding ones) that he hadn't gone back on everything he said just to get his deal and walk out of court not being bankrupt. Believe me Sony will have got something they wanted or ew'd have seen it all play out in the courtroom and with apple losing to a hacker why didn't Geo have the courage of his convictions? He lost,most probably, and sony took the cheaper(he couldn;'t have paid them anyway) and got info and/or names from him for him getting his freedom and bank balance unattacked. You can't make yourself out to be this big figurehead, promise the fight and then basically leech of your supporters until you find a deal to weasel your own self out of things. the fact people support this guy after his rep should be in tatters is amazing to me-they should prolly hate him a lot more than they do Sony. He must have offered Sony something as that's how this works.

Then we see thesa,me kind of tools attacking other innocent devs and companies and it becomes clear this is all about a small club of ill mannered people who find pleasure in breaking other peole's things and endangering people'sliovelihoods in the process. they're nothing moe than burglars and don't even have the excuse many of the world's actual thieves do that they're forced into theft to support themselves or a drug habit. no, these guys just want to break i to annoy people. "Lulz" indeed. Effin hilarious-if they're so slick and bright why don't they put their talents to good use,attack bad regimes or bigotry, cure effin cancer? No, attacking the gaming world is FAR ore just! Idiots-all they will manage is wrecking gaming and, more importantly, internet access for EVERY USER on the planet.

Burma is abusing it's own left and right, Zimbabwe, Cote D'Ivoire, Syria and Israel/Palestine all have issues better addressed by these guys but picking on Bethesda is best, yeh? They'r forcing the capitalist world into a corner and we all know that sooner rather than later someone's bringing down a hammer and if they cannot, because of current loopholes and quirks of our internet freedoms, catch them personally, Govts will sure as hell make certain it cannot go on in the future and make us all jump through a million hoops and take away most of hat makes the net cool to start with. thanks hackers for having zero sense of priority.

Lost earnings and security will wake up western government faster than murdering kids, sadly, and these guys are making damn sure we're all gonna get screwed over. companies ramping up online prices(ISPs etc) in the name of extra security is the least of our worries, trust me. and Fanboy trolling is so out of place in this subject I truly feel for you, Loner.

[Jack-Dangerously]

Hey. Your comment wasn't quiet long enough. Could you blabber on a little more in the future?

[SYNTAXeRror]

LEAVE BETHESDA ALONE!!! ..... U can take me as hostage......fukn hackers, get your own tophat bitches

[Yo Mama]

They are not "hackers". They are digital terrorists.

I say we take the ones we've already caught, go on live tv, put a pistol to their heads and pull the trigger. Then look right into the camera and say "Keep on, motherfuckers". Then fade to black.

That may make some think twice before attempting to break into a system and demanding shit.

PS- I fuck Lulzsec members moms. Just saying.

[Scrupuless]

Thats a little extreme dont you think?

[Yo Mama]

Nope. You don't think hacking into people's shit and ruining their credit, stealing identities and threatening people is extreme?

Seriously, these kinds of people offer nothing to society other than headaches. Just kill them off, make an example out of them. Saves everyone money from having to support the morons in prison.

And this isn't just geared towards these internet terrorists. Anyone who kills, rapes, robs, steals, etc. should be subject to this stiff punishment.

I'm tired of leniency. It doesn't work.

[RIPSKATEDESTROY]

do you work for Running With Scissors?

[Scrupuless]

You cleary have some issues if you sincerly believe, the broadcasted murdering of people for stealing is justifable in the least. Not condoning their behaviour, just saying your crazy.

[iNFAMOUZ1]

you got issues kid.

[koehler83]

They just like seeing themselves referenced on people's blogs. That's their aspiration in life: Cred on games blogs.

[nCiTy]

Man, you come right out of a comic book.

[redDevil87]

That is the nerdiest thing i've ever ever heard!!!!!!

[Chnswdchldrn]

anyone want to form a lynch mob with me to kill these hackers once they're found?

sorry, but nobody should ever fuck with Bethesda. Bethesdas awesome

[noxeven]

lol seems like this trend of the last couple months

[TheRussain]

And you know what makes it really funny? Do LulzSuck really think Bethesda will do what they asked? LMFAO............ LulzSuck REALLY!

[Asuka]

what a douche

sorry for the language. it was warranted.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

"They just like seeing themselves referenced on people's blogs. That's their aspiration in life: Cred on games blogs."

Yeah exactly so why the fuck do morons keep giving them the spotlight, who approves this shit? its fuel to the fire and its disgraceful that the amount of bigmouthed egos in the gaming community cant see these people thrive off of attention.

How do you beat them? you dont publicise their actions, in a negative or positive light, you shut the fuck up and you let them go away by themselves. You see the only reason this has been brought on was because they seen the publicity anonymous got mainly from this site and they want some of the spotlight to.

So wise up, grow up and stop paying attention to child like antics and ignore them and they will go away all by themselves.

[TheRussain]

I totally agree, well said.

[Ninjamonkey82]

At least now the fanboys can see what these f**ks are really about, They where quite happy to ride on the bandwagon when it was Sony being hit. Now its there fave Game Devs being hit. Its getting real now isn't it? for everyone!!. Personally as ive said for the outset Hackers they can all go and suck on a pole.

[Rettom]

SHOW US SOME PS3 GAMEPLAY!!!!!!!

[klimkuz]

This is some very-very disturbing BS. One attack on Sony is just "ha-ha". When so many companies got cracked in such a short time, is getting very wrong, and should be taken care of by police with all seriousness.

Playing a Robin-hood is ok, but being an asshole without any reason and goal, but just for lols have to be punished in a very harsh way.

[mastiffchild]

The "ha ha and Robin Hood" Sony attack mostly hurt gaming and gamers as Sony will recover soon enough while our time can never be given back. I don't recall Robin Hood having a mantra about hurting the poor to amuse spoilt little rich kids, or am I mental? He would also have found a real cause to rally behind and not a phoney like Geohot who set himself up as a Jesus for our/hackers rights and took our cash only to snap off Sony's hand as soon as he could weasel a deal.

I don't think The Lord of Loxley would have had much time for attacking a legit business and hurting millions of innocents in the process while there are counties abusing their own all round the globe to attack. Certainly, I doubt he'd have found it "ha ha"ish either.

[klimkuz]

That wasn't my point. At least with Sony they had some sort of a reason. Those who attack (don't matter whom) are mentally disturbed in general.

What I meant is at least they managed to sum up their reasons and goals. The rest of attacks (also following attacks on Sony) were acts of pure vandalism.

[unknownhero1123]

what i want to know is, where is loner? didn't he support these hackers?

[Killzone3Helghast]

Good luck I'm behind 7 proxies.

[darksied]

This is like a new Al-Qaeda. Attacking (hacking) everyone and taking responsibility because they think they're invincible. Shouldn't someone be trying to stop these guys?