cant prevent it?

these hackers are just making it easier for corps. and ISPs to come together and make an argument for net neutrality yet again...meaning more control over what we can do over the internet...hackers dont give a shit...its the millions of regular consumers who will be collateral damage in the process

if this doesnt become be an issue in congress in the coming months/years...then i'll be surprised

They need to make it less appealing for hackers with nice little things like capital punishment.

As said, lulzec is doing this just for fun.

Now you can bet everything that the medias will not be as vicious as they were with Sony by saying they were incompetent or that having their sites hacked is inadmissible.

Now you gonna read more and more articles saying it's bad and it's not Nintendo's fault. I think some will find that funny.

Anyway by hacking more and more sites hackerz are making laws againts them more and more accurate concerning their freedom, in fact the more they will hack the more the repression will be tolerated moraly for all internet users, for our freedom it can have a dramatic impact in the way we use and access to the infraweb.

I think the apotheose for hackerz is now to hack microsoft servers, just to prove their power and that no company can't be hacked, according to a lot of xbox fanboys (i don't include all xbox users, i am also an xbox user as well, i'play on all systems) xbox live is unhackable, if hackers want the best trophy they can catch, i think they'll go further and prove the biggest electronic corporation = microsoft, that they can compete with them.

Where's Megaman.Exe when you need him?

Lulz Sec is awesome.

Have you ever wondered how movies get leaked weeks before their debut in theathers? How Music CDs are leaked months before hitting retail?

Its quite simple actually. Someone in the company is under paid!!! After that, as a revenge or a simple bad intention, they allow that data to be leaked. In Nintendo case it might be similar. Some under payed developer said on the coffee shop: "Oh, It might have an unsecure backdoor in port 349, who knows?! My job is to keep the port 350 secure!"

Next day this news came up!

Where's that loser gamingdroid now? This is exactly what I've been saying from day one. Alpha asked "What did Nintendo ever do?" Nothing. And neither did Sony. Hackers don't give a damn.

And to the losers who thought Sony had lax security and that's why hackers can get in anywhere (I'm aware it's not the Wii's online service, since they technically don't have much of one), here you go. Security doesn't matter when you are a hacker with enough time and the right set of skills. And in this case, it's a group of hackers.

These are the kinds of people that are responsible for the reputation hackers have. And if none of you who claim that you can't generalize, and that there are good hackers; won't step forth and denounce these groups, and help fight them off, then you can't whine and b*tch about the stereotype and reputation hackers have.

Hackers need to go somewhere, go back attacking officials, not gaming.
Sony, Nintendo, whats next, Microsoft!!!

A lot of people assume that hackers can't be stopped or that the gov't is steps behind them. Would it be such a stretch to assume they just haven't taken it seriously or put any real effort into more sophisticated defenses? It's not like hackers are an alien race. They're people just like you and me. They just think differently. These defense agencies and experts calling the shots need to get the right people in there, instead of just "upgrading" what's already In place.

Something telling me its only a matter of time before Microsoft is hit next.

"They all need to stop underestimating hackers"

People need to stop thinking that these hackings happen because these corps are bent over spreading their crack in a dark alley.

These things happen because people skilled in hacking find ways around security. They're idiotically called "security holes" as if they're man-sized holes in a safe, when they're really more like a lock that can be picked if a person figured out a way to make the right key.

But people with ZERO understanding of technology will still say "ZOMG why u hav no security, Sony/Nintendo/Next Target?"

"They're idiotically called "security holes" as if they're man-sized holes in a safe, when they're really more like a lock that can be picked if a person figured out a way to make the right key."

QFT.

On a side note ~ since Microsoft is probably the worst example of a company to use as having "perfectly secure software" why/how could people somehow believe the Xbox brand would be any different...

Oh that's right, it isn't.

They haven't been hacked, merely attempted hacked. Nothing was breached.

@DragonKnight
"Where's that loser gamingdroid now? This is exactly what I've been saying from day one. Alpha asked "What did Nintendo ever do?" Nothing. And neither did Sony. Hackers don't give a damn."

LOL, I made an impact! Clearly misguided impact too boot!

So many people are confused about what a hacker really is... it is really sad. You know people get in drunk driving every day, but do we call out and blame all drivers?

You need to separate the criminals from the group, just like there are criminal doctors, but not all doctors are criminals.

Is it really that hard to understand.

... LOL! Somebody got really pissed of....

well congratulations Sony and anonymous started Cyber World War I. and it look like its not going to end soon . this is probably the work of some Russian and chines hackers

Bubbles. I laughed.