News in that the latest gaming console business to get hacked is Nintendo. A group has already claimed responsibility – Lulz Security. This is the same group which attacked Sony recently.
The hacking took place on one of its affiliated servers but on this occasion no client data was compromised.
Hacking seems to be on the rise at the moment which further indicates that hackers are developing more advanced tools and systems to make successful attacks.
It is not clear what the motives of Lulz Security is, maybe they are just setting out to highlight the security issues with many large commercial servers. According to their own Twitter page – twitter.com/#!/lulzsec – “We love Nintendo and Sega, if anything we’d hack *for* them.”
They have also attacked PBS and InfraGard this year. Infragard is a company affiliated with the FBI which works in computer security. Lulz Security said that the attack was a direct response to the American government’s increased efforts to stop hackers.
