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Monday, January 26, 2015

Hackers taunt MAS by leaking details of bookings

International hacker group Lizard Squad continues to taunt MAS with photos of its bookings, which was previously said to be safe from hackers by MAS. – Pic from Twitter, January 26, 2015. International hacker group Lizard Squad continues to taunt MAS with photos of its bookings, which was previously said to be safe from hackers by MAS. – Pic from Twitter, January 26, 2015.Minutes after Malaysia Airlines said its website was not compromised and its data remained secure, international hacker group Lizard Squad posted screengrabs of bookings made by various people, including that of a Cabinet minister, mocking the national carrier for "lying" about the hacking.
The group posted the photo of bookings made with MAS on the Lizard Squad Twitter account @LizardMafia which included a booking made by International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed from Subang (Selangor) to Kota Baru (Kelantan).
MAS earlier issued a statement insisting its website was secure after a message posted by an entity claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) militant group appeared on the flag carrier's website front page.
"@MAS Are you really that clueless? Wait until we package this nice present for you," it also said after posting a link to the photo with the bookings with "lolol" (which means laughing out loud).
After news of the hacking broke, the group scoffed at MAS and posted on its account, "Write Lizard Squad on your forehead, thanks. @MAS"
The Lizard Squad is a group of hackers that has caused havoc in the online world before, taking credit for attacks that took down the Sony PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live network last month.
This morning, the national airline's website showed the message “404 - Plane not found”, and was signed off as “Cyber Caliphate”, as a rap song played in the background.
The website title was also changed to “Isis will prevail”, referring to the extremist Sunni Muslim group which has seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq, where it declared an Islamic "caliphate".
An AFP report said the hackers claimed to be from the "Lizard Squad", a group known for previous denial-of-service (DOS) attacks.
However, MAS later said the incident was not hacking, rather, users were redirected to a hacker website when they keyed in www.malaysiaairlines.com, due to a compromise on its Domain Name System (DNS) which translates a domain name to the Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Hundreds of Malaysia Airlines passengers complained it was hard to access details of bookings due to the compromised DNS.
- TMI

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