LulzSec gives NHS security warning

Hacking group LulzSec is fast becoming the focus of a growing number of news stories with its network breaching shenanigans.

Previously the group has announced successful hacking forays onto the Sony Pictures website – where they reportedly made off with at least 50,000 customer details – and also Nintendo, who they said they didn’t mean any harm (and no data was taken anyway).

And now LulzSec has hit the NHS, although again, the group said it didn’t mean any harm to the organisation, and was merely informing it of network weaknesses.

LulzSec wrote on its Twitter feed: “Subdomain NHS access compromised 5 core admins and contact info of several affiliates. Luckily they stored nothing of importance on that DB.”

Other tweets noted that “no, we never planned to exploit those passwords” because “if we [censored] over those that give health, people would literally die laughing at our antics”.

The stolen info is linked to on the group’s Twitter feed, but sensitive details are blacked out “until they fix the problem”, which presumably the NHS is now doing or has done.

For its part, the NHS was quick to make it clear that no patient data files had been compromised.