Hacker group taking over LulzSec name for new attacks

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The famed hacker group LulzSec generated a lot of publicity for itself in 2011 after it claimed responsibility for a number of cyber attacks around the world. Now it appears that a hacker group has taken over the LulzSec name in a newly reported attack on a dating web site.

News.com reports that the MilitarySingles.com web site was the victim of a database intrusion. Personal information from nearly 171,000 accounts, including email addresses and passwords, were taken from the database and later posted on the Pastebin.com site, a known location for hackers to post their accomplishments. So far ESingles, which owns MilitarySingles.com, has yet to comment on this incident.

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