UPDATED 22:41 EDT / FEBRUARY 25 2015

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Lizard Squad hacks Lenovo.com, replaces site with High School Musical tune and emo kid pics

lenovoNotorious hacking group Lizard Squad is being blamed for a hack of Lenovo Group Ltd.’s main group site at Lenovo.com

According to reports the hack went live around 4pm EST Wednesday when users visiting the site saw a carousel of pictures featuring various snaps of an emo kid, along with the song “Breaking Free” from High School Musical being played in the background.

When any of the images were clicked, viewers were taken to the Lizard Squad Twitter account, and the source code for the hacked page identified it as, “the new and improved rebranded Lenovo website featuring Ryan King and Rory Andrew Godfrey.” Both have been identified as members of Lizard Squad previously.

The site allegedly returned to normal sometime in the following hour, however at the time of writing (10:30pm EST) the Lenovo.com site is offline, with a message reading “The Lenovo site you are attempting to access is currently unavailable due to system maintenance. Please try the site again in a few minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience this may create”

The hack may not have been a full scale attack on the Lenovo.com site itself versus Lizard Squad instead gaining access to the domain name servers (DNS) for the domain. This is supported in part by the Lizard Squad posting a picture that would indicate it was also receiving email sent to the domain.

https://twitter.com/LizardCircle/status/570702950038970368

The attack on Lenovo follows widespread community anger after it was revealed Lenovo was shipping adware-infected PC’s that presented a security risk to users.

The “Superfish” adware was said to not only inject advertising into user’s search results, but was also capable of hijacking SSL/TLS connections to websites, thanks to the presence of a self-signing certificate authority on affected PCs.

Image credit: The Verge


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