Hacker group LulzSec opens 'request line'

After claiming responsibility for attacking several sites, including the US Central Intelligence Agency, hacker group LulzSec opened its lines to accept hack requests. Last Tuesday, the group posted a phone number on its Twitter account, as well as ports for online chats, inviting the public to "join the party." "Call us: 614-LULZSEC (now accepting calls) | Join the party: irc.lulzco.org (port 6697 for SSL channel #LulzSec or http://t.co/Sm5wHjd)," it said. LulzSec had claimed it hacked the Public Broadcasting Service, an affiliate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Sony. An article on PC World said the group disrupted websites during its "Titanic Takeover Tuesday." The PC World article said group's activities Tuesday disrupted the websites for The Escapist and the IT security company Finfisher, as well as the login servers for EVE Online, Minecraft and League of Legends. It said the group claimed to have received 5,000 missed calls and 2,500 voicemails. While the 614 area code represents Columbus, Ohio, "only an irresponsible gambler would wager that that will help authorities locate members of LulzSec in the slightest," the PC World article said. "LulzSec is begging to get busted, but also, in a perverse way, 'giving back' to a community that enjoys seeing the flaws of big companies exposed. The ironic twist is that these big companies are made big by the average public whose private information is being revealed in the hacks," PC World said.