That's not what happened here, though. There wasn't any release of server info; from the tweets, this was just a string of DDoS attacks.
If my account information or personal details are vulnerable to theft somehow, I want to know about that. But if a server I play games on can be taken down by DDoS, I'd happily go the rest of my life not knowing or caring so long as it doesn't actually happen. It contributes about as much as showing me that that bridge I like to drive over is susceptible to bombing.
My credit card number was used from Turkey this week. I have absolutely no idea which website was compromised. And I am pretty sure that whoever was compromised has no idea either.
Might not be a website - my wife's and my debit cards were compromised last year within two weeks of one another. The only thing they had in common was that they're at the same bank; she has never even once used her card online.
Our conclusion was that Chase Manhattan had been compromised. That's kind of scary, really. They have to be spending serious money on security.
To clarify, by "they have to", are you stating a fact or making a demand? One would have thought that Citigroup would have had some pretty tight security as well.
I think I'm accentuating an assumption - and when I saw the Citigroup story, I had precisely the reaction you just expressed here.
And yet you know that Chase and Citigroup are spending money on security in copious amounts. My heart breaks to think of all those guys getting paid not to know jack. (Or, just as probably, all those guys getting paid not to be able to shove jack through the corporate process.)
It could have been coincidence and an offline compromise for your wife. There are a lot of skimming operations out there. Plus when you give your card to a waiter at a restaurant, nothing stops the waiter from copying your information.
In my case the fact that the purchase was made from Turkey suggests that it was an online compromise.
You do understand that lulzsec is deliberately publicizing acts that would usually go untraced, right? Security is security: If you don't have any and you house information, you will eventually be burned.
Yes it's getting annoying, but they're doing it for the lulz. You can't say the same about all the other malicious hackers.
