"Merry LulzXmas" Says Lulzsec

XMAS eve was not a happy day for U.S. security firm Stratfor when a hacktivist group Lulzsec stole credit card, email and other confidential data in activism against the prosecution of Bradley Manning’s in US Courts. Lulzsec and Anonymous are hacktivist groups who target firms rightly or wrongly using hacking tools to portray a political message. As opposed to hackers who hack for profit.These two groups have been protesting the prosecution of Bradley Manning who is alleged to have leaked confidential US cables on WikiLeaks. The trial is ongoing in the US.

Lulzsec published the XMAS message below when it released the full list of hacked account details in a 50 mb file. I have deleted the source of this file as I would not encourage my users to download it.

 I am sharing this message on my blog as it aptly illustrates the hacktivism thought process.

1.     _____                          

2.      /     \   __________________ ___.__.

3.     /  \ /  \_/ __ \_  __ \_  __ <   |  |                                                      MERRY

4.    /    Y    \  ___/|  | \/|  | \/\___  |

5.    \____|__  /\___  |__|   |__|   / ____|

6.            \/     \/              \/    

7.                                                                                                        LULZXMAS

8.    .____          .__         ____  ___                      

9.    |    |    __ __|  | _______\   \/  / _____ _____    ______

10.  |    |   |  |  |  | \___   /\     / /     \\__  \  /  ___/

11.  |    |___|  |  |  |__/    / /     \|  Y Y  \/ __ \_\___ \

12.  |_______ |____/|____/_____ /___/\  |__|_|  (____  /____  >

13.          \/                \/     \_/     \/     \/     \/

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16.                                                                        #AntiSec™    (wtf? we hate copyright...)

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19.  > Can I haz candy?

20.  > :3

21.                                               

22.  Greetings Global Pirates! Having fun riding the waves of the Global Financial Meltdown?  We sure are.

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24.  Did Bradley Manning get his fancy LulzXmas dinner yet?

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26.  hm... guess not.

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28.  Still trying to lock him up for life?

29.  Still think we're just joking around?

30.  That's OK. The time for talk is over.

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32.  So now let's talk... about XXXX:

33.  It's time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor.

34.  But that's not all: we're also dumping ~860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who's ever registered on Stratfor's site.

35.   

36.  > ...

37.  > WTF?!?!

38.  > Did you say 860,000 accounts????

39.  > Did you notice 50,000 of these email addresses are .mil and .gov?

40.  > XXXX men...we're pretty much screwed up now...tinfoil hat please here..

41.  > yeah, for the lulz \:D/

42.  > sounds illegal...

43.  * /me phones police

44.  > holy shit, like frontal crash at 180mph!!!

45.  > :P

46.  > lol xD

47.   

48.  We almost have sympathy for those poor DHS employees and australian billionaires who had their bank accounts looted by the lulz (orly? i just fapped).

49.  But what did you expect? All our lives we have been robbed blindly and brutalized by corrupted politicians, establishmentarians and government agencies sex shops, and now it's time to take it back.

50.   

51.  We call upon all allied battleships, all armies from darkness, to use and abuse these password lists and credit card information to wreak unholy havok upon the systems and personal email accounts of these rich and powerful oppressors. Kill, kitties, kill and burn them down... peacefully. XD XD

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53.  Is that it? 0h hell n0.

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55.  On New Years Eve, there will be "noise demonstrations" in front of jails and prisons all over the world to show solidarity with those incarcerated.

56.  On this date, we will be launching our contributions to project mayhem

57.  by attacking multiple law enforcement targets from coast to coast.

58.  That's right: once again we bout to ride on the po po. Problem, officer? umad?

59.                                                                       

60.  Candiez, pr0n and cookies for LulzXmas:

61.     What follows is an Online dump of stratfor data – names, password, the works . I have removed the links to the five sites used,