Lulz Security, commonly known as LulzSec to many Internet users, is a computer hacker group which became famous for compromising some Sony Pictures user accounts in 2011, which has been found guilty for an array of attacks nearly two years after the attack. LulzSec’s main motivation – “to have fun” – caught up with 3 [...]

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LulzSec Hackers Make Enemies Online

Lulz Security, the hacking group that has been on a spree lately, might think its antics are hilarious. But some others in the hacker world are sick of its games.

After six weeks of attacks — and hundreds of sarcastic Twitter posts — a number of people, offended by the exposure of innocent Internet users’ personal information and irritated by the bravado, are working to stop LulzSec by investigating and revealing its members’ identities to the world, and especially to the F.B.I.

On Friday, The Guardian reported that a disaffected former associate known only as m_nerva had leaked logs of conversations that LulzSec’s members had among themselves in online chat rooms.

The logs cover a period from May 31 to June 4, which covers the LulzSec hacks on Sony and P.B.S. Under the apparent leadership of one of the hackers, known only as Sabu, between six and eight group members discuss media coverage of their deeds and rail against a rival hacker, called The Jester, who has been publishing what he says are leaks about LulzSec on his Web site. The Jester is known as a defender of the United States military and an opponent of WikiLeaks and radical Muslim groups, which he has hit with crippling amounts of traffic in what are known as denial-of-service attacks.

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