{"id":12391,"date":"2011-06-14T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"lulzsec-brings-down-escapist-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12391-lulzsec-brings-down-escapist-magazine","title":{"rendered":"LulzSec brings down Escapist Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LulzSec\" target=\"_blank\">twitter updates<\/a>, hacker outfit LulzSec has apparently taken aim at The Escapist Magazine Website, a well-known and highly regarded gaming news and features website. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Okay Escapist Magazine, let&#8217;s play a little game&#8230;&rdquo; tweets LulzSec, and minutes later, &ldquo;Tango down: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Kgsq9LP\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/t.co\/Kgsq9LP<\/a> *munches popcorn* wonder where the gamers are gonna run now.&rdquo; Followed buy &ldquo;Primary Lulz Cannon is making toast of Escapist Magazine. The real disruption ammunition is secretly causing hell for their sysadmins. umad?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Escapist Magazine website\">The Escapist Magazine website<\/a> at the time of publication reveals that it is indeed down for the count. Is it all just for the lulz?<\/p>\n<p>LulzSec has claimed a number of cyber victories of late; last weekend they hacked into <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12387-Bethesda-websites-hacked-200000-Brink-user-accounts-lifted.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Bethesda websites hacked, 200,000 Brink user accounts lifted\">Bethesda&rsquo;s websites<\/a> and made off with a claimed 200,000 Brink user account details. Prior to that they hacked into <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12137-Nintendo-latest-target-hackers.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"LulzSec claims to be hacking into Nintendo's website and preparing for a release soon\">Nintendo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12107-Sony-websites-hacked-once-again-million-accounts-stolen.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Sony websites hacked once again, 1 million accounts stolen\">Sony Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14731-LulzSec-hackers-bring-down-Escapist-Magazine\" target=\"_self\" title=\"LulzSec brings down Escapist Magazine\">LulzSec brings down Escapist Magazine<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LulzSec have turned their sights on The Escapist Magazine website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}