Lizard Squad Data Breach

What happened

In January 2015, the hacker collective known as "Lizard Squad" created a DDoS service by the name of "Lizard Stresser" which could be procured to mount attacks against online targets. Shortly thereafter, the service suffered a data breach which resulted in the public disclosure of over 13k user accounts including passwords stored in plain text.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Lizard Squad password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Lizard Squad — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.