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| Fox.com hacked. |
While all the attention is laser-focused on the Sony PSN and SOE hacks, other high-profile sites and databases are being targeted and compromised by hackers.
The latest to fall is Fox.com and with it the most personal of details about every X-Factor 2011 contestant. The details available for each contestant includes:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Date of Birth
- Gender
- Phone Number
- Location (State)
- Zip Code
- Audition type
- Number of performers
- Several unnamed optional fields
The hacker group which compromised the site and grabbed the database goes by the name of The Lulz Boat or more commonly LulzSec. They describe themselves as a small group who are separate from the likes of Anonymous, but may help them out from time to time.
The announcement of the information leak came via the LulzSec Twitter account and included a link to a torrent hosted on The Pirate Bay containing all the data. It seems Fox.com hasn’t been defaced in anyway, and LulzSec were just after information they could steal and post for everyone to see. They have also promised that there is more to come, so who knows what else they managed to grab from Fox’s servers.
While not a major breach on the scale of Sony’s current woes, it does show that some of the most popular networks out there are lax with their website and online security in general.
We suspect a few of those contestants will have already turned their phones off having received many prank calls from people downloading the list and checking its authenticity.
via Reddit
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