Playstation, Xbox and Amazon leaks: Hackers claim to have spread private details of 13,000 people online
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Hacked: Affected services included of Xbox Live, Sony Playstation Network and Twitch.tv
Hackers claim to have leaked the details of more than 13,000 Playstation, Xbox and online stores users.
Details are said to include username and passwords, credit car numbers and expiry dates and details ripped from pornography sites.
The hackers claim to be connected to anarchist group Anonymous.
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Hackers claimed on twitter to have released 13,000 account details
Affected services included of Xbox Live, Sony Playstation Network and Twitch.tv.
Online stores such as Amazon and Walmart are also said to have been targeted.
The group told their followers that they hacked the account details 'for the Lulz', according to Dailydot.com.
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Hackers claimed on twitter to have released 13,000 account details
The hackers are believed to have used a denial of service attack, where they bombard the targets servers with internet traffic.
This forces the sites to shut down and prevent legitimate access.
They also uploaded controversial film The Interview to a file-sharing website after ripping it from Sony.
They also have ripped a version of film 'The Interview'
The latest online breech comes after thousands of people were unable to enjoy their gaming systems over Christmas .
A group calling itself the Lizard Squad brought down online networks.
They claimed to have carried out the cyberattack to expose weaknesses in the networks’ security.
