Lulzsec splinter group hacks Twitter client

What? You thought you’d heard the last of hacker collective Lulzsec when its ringleader turned out to be an FBI mole? Sorry pal, you thought wrong.

Lulzsec Reborn — a splinter group formed from the remnants of the now defunct Lulzsec — has claimed responsibility for leaking 10 000 passwords from a Twitter-based app called TweetGif.

The app, which allows people to share GIFs, required its users to share their names, passwords, and locations. The group has yet to give any reason for the hack, although it may just have been “for the lulz”. That is, it may have been done just for the thrill of hacking someone.

Lulzsec had undertaken such attacks before, along with more “hacktivist”-style attacks against large businesses and government organisations. At times the group acted in collaboration with equally shadowy collective Anonymous.

Compared to the 6.5-million passwords leaked in the recent LinkedIn hack however, 10 000 from an obscure Twitter-based app is just a drop in the ocean.