LulzSec Hacks Ariz. State Police; More Attacks Underway
After hacking websites related to various governments in Brazil, China and the U.S. included, LulzSec is making headlines once again.
Its victim this time was Arizona's Department of Public Safety whose website was hacked on Friday.
LulzSec posted that the specific motive behind such an attack was its nonconformity with Arizona's tough law on immigrants known politically as the "SB1070" requiring all aliens to carry legal registry documentation at all times.
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"We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona."
The international hacktivist group hacked the department's server and leaked various "law enforcement sensitive" and "not for public" files including private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phones, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona's law enforcement.
LulzSec's hack attacks are known for having recently targeted not only government related websites such as the U.S. Senate's or the FBI's but also large corporation websites such as Brazil's petrol giant, PetroBras and Sony.
And with regards to any sign showing these attacks to lessen in number or frequency, LulzSec's post on its website counters any forecast of such activity coming to a halt anytime soon: Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarrassing personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to terrorize communities fighting an unjust "war on drugs."
So far one teen, Ryan Clearly, has been arrested in the U.K. in an ongoing investigation for the attacks on the U.S. and on Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency. His affiliation with LulsZec is unclear and is still under investigation.
The U.S. government considers cyber-attacks an act of war in several instances but this announcement has not discouraged LulzSec to proceed with its operations.
