Lizard Squad is a group of hackers who made themselves notorious in the computer world by making it look like they're really busy. In the last two months, These hackers supposedly hacked the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live DDoS, as well as the Malaysia Airlines website. Police also arrested one member of the group. But if that wasn't enough, the group has targeted Chinese device maker Lenovo.
If users visited the Lenovo website on February 25th between 4:00 and 4:17 EST, they would have seen a slideshow of teens set to the tune of "Breaking Free". Within 17 minutes of that hack, the original site would have been restored, albeit with some glitches.
While the hackers left no marks on the front page signifying who hacked the page, a look at the source code reveals a message: "the new and improved rebranded Lenovo website featuring Ryan King and Rory Andrew Godfrey,". King and Godfrey are both confirmed members of Lizard Squad. However, that's not enough evidence for one to claim that Lizard Squad actually did it. It's possible another hacker just used their names to hide their involvement.
The Verge believes that the hacks were just a rerouting of Lenovo's domain record rather than them directly accessing Lenovo's infrastructure.
On top of the website hack, the LS-affiliated Twitter account @lizardcircle started posting emails that were supposedly from Lenovo employees.
Most suspect that the hackers attacked Lenovo because of the recent Superfish fiasco, where users discovered a piece of encryption-breaking malware on the computer that harmed thousands of Lenovo owners. Thankfully, Lenovo posted a program that removed the malware, but that didn't fix the distrust that the mishap created.
Lenovo has not released comment regarding the hack.
