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Lizard Squad Hacks Malaysia Airlines Website
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The Malaysia Airlines website was comprised on January 26 by hackers who claimed to be from the Lizard Squad, a group known for denial-of-service attacks. Lizard Squad, who late last year took down the Sony PlayStation Network and Microsofts Xbox Live Network, threatened to release important data from Malaysia Airlines.
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The hackers at first changed the website to display a message saying 404 Plane Not Found (an apparent reference to the airlines mysterious loss of flight MH370 in 2014) and that it was Hacked by Cyber Caliphate, with a photo of one of the airlines Airbus A380 superjumbo jets. The browser tab for the website read ISIS will prevail. The national carriers homepage was replaced with an image of a tuxedo-wearing lizard, and read Hacked by LIZARD SQUAD OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
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Malaysia Airlines confirms that its Domain Name System (DNS) has been compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website when [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] URL is keyed in. At this stage, Malaysia Airlines web servers are intact.
The airline has resolved the issue with its service provider and the system is expected to be fully recovered within 22 hours. The matter has also been immediately reported to CyberSecurity Malaysia and the Ministry of Transport.
Malaysia Airlines assures customers and clients that its website was not hacked and this temporary glitch does not affect their bookings and that user data remains secured.
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It is unclear why Malaysia Airlines was targeted. According to reports, the government is concerned about the news of Malaysian citizens being lured to the ISIS cause in the Middle East in the recent past. Malaysian authorities last week acknowledged that they detained 120 people suspected of having ISIS sympathies or planning to travel to Syria.
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The hackers at first changed the website to display a message saying 404 Plane Not Found (an apparent reference to the airlines mysterious loss of flight MH370 in 2014) and that it was Hacked by Cyber Caliphate, with a photo of one of the airlines Airbus A380 superjumbo jets. The browser tab for the website read ISIS will prevail. The national carriers homepage was replaced with an image of a tuxedo-wearing lizard, and read Hacked by LIZARD SQUAD OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
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Malaysia Airlines confirms that its Domain Name System (DNS) has been compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website when [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] URL is keyed in. At this stage, Malaysia Airlines web servers are intact.
The airline has resolved the issue with its service provider and the system is expected to be fully recovered within 22 hours. The matter has also been immediately reported to CyberSecurity Malaysia and the Ministry of Transport.
Malaysia Airlines assures customers and clients that its website was not hacked and this temporary glitch does not affect their bookings and that user data remains secured.
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It is unclear why Malaysia Airlines was targeted. According to reports, the government is concerned about the news of Malaysian citizens being lured to the ISIS cause in the Middle East in the recent past. Malaysian authorities last week acknowledged that they detained 120 people suspected of having ISIS sympathies or planning to travel to Syria.
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Maybe if they made their reason for doing these things known, we could be able to understand where they are coming from, but until they do, they are just creating a bad name for themselves.
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As if Malaysia Airlines didn't have enough problems already losing 2 777's in a couple months.
Lizard squad = douche bags.
Lizard squad = douche bags.
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Good post, I never knew this until now. I HATE LIZARD SQUAD = Come FIGHT ME
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So apparently lizard squad is just a group of a**holes, i don't see any actual logical reason to take this website down.
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TSA wrote So apparently lizard squad is just a group of a**holes, i don't see any actual logical reason to take this website down.
All about publicity. They'll do anything for attention.
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Enough with these people already... Everytime I hear Lizard Squad I wanna find them myself and beat the living daylights out of them.
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why do they keep hacking everything. ive got to admit they are good but what are they actually achieving
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This squad can do anything lmfao.. Like how would be my answer lol
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Dont see why they got no reason to
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