LulzSec Denies Taking U.K. Census Data

The cyberpunk group LulzSec denies it has purloined a large amount of in the flesh data of U.K. residents from that country's 2020 nosecount. The denial comes after person claiming to be from the hacker group posted a observe online that said the hackers obtained the entire database of the U.K.'s 2020 Census. If true, it would suffer meant LulzSec had the fundamental vital information of a large number of British citizens including names, addresses, dates of birth, levels of education, and marital and employment statuses.

In recent weeks, LulzSec has been creditworthy for taking pull down the websites of the Key Intelligence Agency, an organisation affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Senate, and, last, a constabulary site in the U.K. LulzSec likewise recently announced a new campaign named #AntiSec, calling on hackers all all over the earthly concern to "steal and wetting any classified government information." Given the group's recent campaign and former actions, it was not improbable for the chemical group to crook up with information stolen from British government servers.

The claim set off a flurry of reports about the supposed heist, and British census officials issued a affirmation saying information technology was investigating the matter, just had zero evidence to advise its electronic network had been infiltrated.

Pastebin Problem

While the purported online notice from LulzSec about the 2020 U.K. Census data was troubling, there were a few inconsistencies that suggested information technology was a hoax. As usual, the online notice was posted anonymously to Pastebin, a popular site among programmers to Emily Price Post pieces of cypher for short periods of time. But LulzSec typically golf links to any of its Pastebin notices through its internet site and Twitter feed, and this time it had cooked neither.

"Fitting saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us – don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we hold out a tweet first," the chemical group later aforementioned on Twitter shortly after PCWorld and separate media outlets contacted the group for a assertion.

In remission?

The phony U.K. Census arrogate may not be the only bogus LulzSec story to turn out on Tues. Police in the U.K. on Tuesday said they had arrested a 19-year-lad's love in relation to the LulzSec hacks. The hack group, however, said on Twitter briefly after reports of the arrest that none of its members were in patrol custody.

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