Lulzsec: the rise and fall of a hacking collective

The curtain has fallen on the 50 day performance by hacker group LulzSec. Its campaign of mayhem and destruction, peppered with witty commentary captivated the world.

#1: Simon Cowell’s X-Factor

-On May 2, just before the 2011 X-Factor season kicked off, Lulzsec hacked the show’s MySQL database and released 73,000 contestants’ email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and other personal details. It would not be the last attack on Fox.

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