14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the US House of Representatives, several hacktivist collectives have announced their intentions to protest against the controversial bill. One of those groups is LulzSecWiki.
The LulzSec hackers have leaked the details of over 1,800 customers of telecoms company NTT DoCoMo, the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan.
The data published by the hackers consists of names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses. The credit card details – including cardholder name, card number, issuer and expiration date – of 403 individuals have also been compromised.
In a statement published over the weekend, DoCoMo said the information belonged to customers of NTT DoCoMo USA, one of the company’s subsidiaries.
The company has also highlighted the fact that the systems of DoCoMo USA are separate from the ones in Japan. All the impacted individuals are being contacted by the telecoms firm.
As far as the hackers are concerned, they say they’ve targeted the company because it shows up on a list of companies that support CISPA.
“In utter disgust of the language in the CISPA bill we have decided to act. We are here to show the companies exactly how CISPA feels when used against us. We understand CISPA was not passed. This is still an issue,” the hackers stated.
“These companies have continued to support all internet censorship bills. It is time to take action. The internet was made to be a FREE and OPEN service for the world to use at the USERS will. Our first target is unique. They are part of the ‘Wireless Alliance’. They angered us because they are hosted outside the United States but have a say in American policy.”
In addition to breaching DoCoMo, the hackers have also launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the official site of Broadcom.