Update:You can check if your details have been leakedhere. Hacker groupLulz Securitytook another step in its campaign to expose the security woes of its specified targets by releasing what looks to be 62,000 random user email addresses and passwords, prompting its Twitter followers to access accounts to gain any sensitive information they can find. Be creative instead of being a potato. Try PayPal combinations, Twitter, Facebook, eBay, Runescape. Pick a target from the list....

As yet, the validity of this claim is unclear, but if true, this is incredibly significant. According to a document posted toPastebin, hacking group LulzSec has claimed that it has been able to steal what could amount to millions of records from theUK 2011 Census, with a public release coming soon. The group notes that it has “blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011 census”....

Despite reports that it was at war with the loose online collective Anonymous, today hacker group LulzSec has announced it is to team up with the online community to begin “Operation Anti-Security”, a declaration which will see it attack any government or agency that “crosses their path”. LulzSec, famous for compromising the servers of Fox, Sony, the CIA, PBS and a number of other websites, announced its plans in its usual fashion,posting a release to Pastebinand then tweeting the link from its 217,000 strongTwitter account....

Hacker group LulzSec, it appears, is through with its “anarchic lulz”,announcingtoday via Pastebin (of course) that it’squittingafter fifty days of activity. “For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could,” the group notes. “While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently.”...

The man arrested on suspicion of being Topiary, a key member of ‘hacktivist’ group LulzSec, has made his first appearance in court today. The suspect stands accused of hacking the Serious & Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the UK organization that tackles serious crimes involving Class A drugs, people smuggling and human trafficking, major gun crime, fraud, computer crime and money laundering. We firstreportedon his arrest last week, and yesterday itemergedthat the man’s name was Jake Davis, an 18-year old from the Shetland Islands....