Lizard Squad

January 2015 – 14,241 accounts affected

In January 2015, Lizard Squad, which is a hacker collective, was hacked themselves and more than 14,241user names, email addresses and passwords were stolen and published.
A hacker group known as the "Lizard Squad" created a distributed denial of service (DDoS) that they called "Lizard Stresser", which was used to take down third party websites and infiltrate them with malware, viruses and trojans for a fee. In January 2015 however, the "Lizard Stressor" was breached by a third party, who made 14,241 Lizard Squad user accounts and the accounts of those who paid Lizard Squad to use the Lizard Stressor on third party websites, available to the public including their email addresses, passwords and usernames. Based on the data that was released, it was reported that despite the number of registered users to the Lizard Stressor website, the group only received approximately $11,000 bitcoins to pay for attacks on third party websites.

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