LulzSec Admirers Claim Attack On DISA

Taking its cue from LulzSec and Anonymous, hacker group strikes U.S. military agency network as protest against U.S. involvement in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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A group apparently taking a page out of the LulzSec playbook claims to have broken into the network of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and stolen sensitive information it plans to post online.
The Crazies--which like Anonymous, AntiSec, and the now-defunct LulzSec hacking groups--said it is politically motivated to act against the federal government. It posted online
SSL certificate revocation lists
(CRLs) it claims are in its possession as a result of an intrusion into DISAs network.
On the document-sharing site Pastebin, the group also voiced its support for those hacktivist groups in notes about its activity, which it said was inspired by U.S. military engagement in the Middle East.
Were fully supporting you and supporting any others who wants to get those carnivores that lives on sucking the civilians blood as far as we saw that happening in Libya ... and before that in Iraq and Afghanistan and many others, according to the notes. Well expose them because we had enough of their thoughts and calls for fake freedom.
Crazies didnt go into detail about whats contained in the files it claims to have lifted from DISAs network, but said it will post them online in less than a week.
Reached via telephone, Lily Cofield from the DISA public affairs office said the agency is currently checking with the Department of Defenses U.S. Cyber Command, which keeps track of intrusions into .gov websites, to see if the groups claim is legitimate. Until then, DISA cant confirm its been hacked, she said.
Crazies could be aspiring to be the next big politically motivated hacktivist outfit. Until it announced it was
ceasing operations
near the end of June, LulzSec went on a 50-day hacking spree, targets of which included the Navy, the Arizona Department of Public Safety, and the CIA.
Following LulzSecs self-enforced demise, AntiSec--which includes members of Anonymous and LulzSec--picked up where the latter left off in an international hacking spree as part of an Operation Anti Security campaign targeting government corruption around the world.
A week ago, AntiSec
targeted federal contractor
Booz Allen Hamilton and posted 90,000 military email addresses and passwords from the company online.
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