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Hackers take down domain registrar

Stuart Sumner

17 June 2011 • 2 min read

Lulzsec have attacked Australian-based web hosts and released the details of 62,000 email and password combinations to the public

Hacking group Lulzsec has successfully attacked Australian domain registrar and web host DistributeIT. The group's targets appear to be international; it made another Distributed Denial of Servi...

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