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Hackers claiming to support Islamic State have done this to Malaysia Airlines

It is the latest attack linked to a group calling itself the Lizard Squad.

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A GROUP OF hackers which has made apparent references to Islamic State jihadists has taken over the website of troubled carrier Malaysia Airlines.

Earlier this morning, hackers from the Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for a stunt which led to traffic to the airline’s site being redirected to a page with the message: “404 – Plane Not Found”.

The redirect page also showed an image of a tuxedo-wearing lizard and the words: “Hacked by Cyber Caliphate”.

The breach comes 10 months after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The airline’s website was later restored and it issued a statement on its Facebook page to say its computer system was still “intact”.

Malaysia Airlines assures customers and clients that its website was not hacked and this temporary glitch does not affect their bookings and that user data remains secured,” it said.

“The matter has also been immediately reported to CyberSecurity Malaysia and the Ministry of Transport.”

But a Twitter account calling itself the Lizard Squad said the airline was lying about its network being secure.

‘Planted ISIS flag’

The group has previously claimed responsibility for a string of hacking incidents and denial-of-service attacks, including the Christmas outage of both Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox online networks.

After an earlier attack on Sony’s systems, another Twitter account calling itself the Lizard Squad said it had “planted the ISIS flag on Sony’s servers”.

It has also been reported that in some regions for the latest incident the Malaysia Airlines homepage was redirecting to another site which carried the words: “ISIS will prevail”.

However it is unknown what, if any, links the hackers actually have to the jihadist group which has carved out a self-declared Islamic “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.

Yesterday the group, which has murdered several journalists and aid workers, confirmed it had executed one of two Japanese hostages it was currently holding after releasing a video showing the man’s beheaded corpse.

With AFP

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    Mute Eel Knack Mole
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:15 AM

    I think it is fairly obvious that this is just a group of anarchist kids with absolutely no link to Islamic extremism. IS Lacks the self awareness to do something like this.

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    Mute Juninho
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:19 AM

    Also the internet access

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    Mute Graham Kavanagh
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    Jan 26th 2015, 12:25 PM

    Probably a bunch of 250lb kids still washed by mommy who consider themselves men….

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    Mute Keith Daly
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    Jan 26th 2015, 2:05 PM

    Lol, fat people are hilarious, and obviously incompetent. Obviously their bad life decisions that lead them to be fat obviously led them to further bad life decisions, such as still living with their parents, and poor hygiene.

    How isn’t this a trope already?

    If anything, the lizard squad certainly aren’t a bunch of fearless dudebros with brass balls the size of watermelons, who are regularly conduct organised crime on a very public scale. Yeah, those guys are a bunch of losers. I bet their probably crying into all their money, with their grubby, unwashed hands. You sure showed them, Graham. What a bunch of dicks.

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    Mute Egg Head
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:15 AM

    Lizard Squad have nothing to do with IS, just a bunch of sexually frustrated gamer nerds.

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    Mute stephen
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:44 AM

    Atleast they have something in common.

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    Mute Mark Malone
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:13 AM

    Some other clown with his “Central Command” in his mothers back bedroom.

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    Mute stephen
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:46 AM

    Again a lot in common, I am finding it hard to distinguish.

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    Mute Juan Venegas
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:17 AM

    I thought using western clothing was Haraam. What a bunch of mentally challenged eejits. Crush them like the cockroaches they are.

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    Mute Harvey Specter
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:11 AM

    Don’t think I could ever bring myself to board a Malaysian plane at this stage

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    Mute Jason Culligan
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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:00 AM

    One plane was likely flown off course by mentally unstable pilots and another was shot down. It’s hardly the fault of the carrier. If both planes crashed due to poor maintenance then I would agree with you.

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    Mute Harvey Specter
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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:05 AM

    I wouldn’t tell anybody not too fly with them , I just feel their more a target then other airlines

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    Mute Vincent O Mahony
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    Jan 26th 2015, 12:22 PM

    One plane was shot down that wasnt the fault of the carrier – except that other carriers had taken the decision not to fly over Ukraine.

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 26th 2015, 1:07 PM

    ..and both crashed 33+33+33+33 days apart from each other.

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    Mute Dermot Ryan
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    Jan 26th 2015, 3:44 PM

    You know Frank ,
    Your numbers are just after reminding me of a glitch in string theory that is funnily echoed in modern computers and how they operate ….. and both developed independently of each other – can’t believe I forgot to make the connection ….
    Interesting !

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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:01 AM

    Anonymous vs Lizard Squad in smackdown challenge – bring it on!!
    :-D

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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:44 AM

    Lizard Squad are such a bunch of brats. Their mammies should revoke their internet privileges.

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    Mute Uncle Mort
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:38 AM

    Meanwhile the BBC is pandering to IS, they must think they are going to be hacked.
    “We must not call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’, says BBC boss
    Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, says using the term ‘terrorism’ is too ‘loaded’

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    Mute stephen
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    Jan 26th 2015, 10:48 AM

    Cowardly sc@mbag deluded terrorists, that just about does it.

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:01 AM

    “Hacked By Cyber Caliphate” in English Gematria Equals: 1122

    1122 a number divisible by 33

    (1122 divided by 33 = 34 __ 3+4 = 7)

    http://www.gematrix.org/?word=Hacked+by+Cyber+Caliphate

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    Mute Rian Lynch
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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:19 AM

    So?

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 26th 2015, 11:33 AM

    Finger prints indicating that the story is a load of bol1ox

    Here’s another one..”Lizard Squad” = 792

    Divisible by 33

    http://www.gematrix.org/?word=Lizard+Squad+

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    Mute Simon Barnes
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    Jan 26th 2015, 12:01 PM

    thank god 33 is not a prime number or you would have had me really worried’ even 3+3 = 6 so we’re good there too, phew monday is bad enough without the attack of the primes

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 26th 2015, 12:04 PM

    “404 Plane not found”.

    You drop the zero.

    Who is synonymous with the number 44?

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    Mute J
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    Jan 26th 2015, 4:04 PM

    200 OK

    You drop the zero

    Who is synonymous with the number 20?

    Me, had 20 pints last night….terrible hangover.

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 26th 2015, 4:06 PM

    J_ You drop both the zeros

    so in effect you got pi*sed on two pints

    Well Done.

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    Mute Cyril Butler
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    Jan 26th 2015, 12:25 PM

    Such computer literacy alongside scientific ignorance and devotion to such primitive ignorant mythology is a frightening paradox of our troubled species.

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    Mute J
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    Jan 26th 2015, 4:02 PM

    Thing is it’s not computer literacy. This is almost the lowest form of computer literacy if you would even call it that.

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