Felix Roque allegedly hacked the email account associated with the website and nixed the domain registration in an effort to muzzle an insurgent political campaign to oust the mayor.
Christopher Chaney, a Florida man accused of hacking into the email accounts of about 50 celebrities, says it was just a curiosity that went too far—and that he “deeply apologizes” to celebrity victims like Scarlett Johansson.
“A Colombian drug dealer offered me $5 million to hack into the Bureau of Prisons network to get him an early release date. I said, ‘Let’s talk.’” — KEVIN MITNICK, once described as the world’s most wanted computer hacker, discussing his five years in prison. See his full 10 Questions interview here (available for subscribers).
Don’t worry, Rupert “Humble” Murdoch. You’re not the only notable to have been confronted with a pastry full of righteous rage.
And here we thought Hugh’s best stuff came in confessions of love.
For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could…it’s time to say bon voyage. –LULZSEC, short for Lulz Security, a collective of fearless hackers who exposed security breaches in the networks of Sony, PBS and the CIA, [...]
We know it happens to thousands of members every month — even French President Nicolas Sarkozy was a victim. We just didn’t expect it to happen to the top dog himself.
But this wasn’t the usual virus-laden “check out my latest pics” attack that any Facebook user knows well – Sarkozy’s hacker had a distinctly political motive.
And it goes without saying that the incident also netted him a divorce.
Hackers just got a little meaner.
