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CANBERRA: Hacker group Lulz Security, has now published Australian students' email logins as well as Facebook and PayPal accounts details on twitter.
The group that recently crippled the CIA website, dumped more than 62,000 personal details on Twitter yesterday, inviting people to try the passwords on everything from bank accounts to online stores.
Twitter was soon flooded with claims from individuals who said they had used the passwords to gain illicit access to Facebook and PayPal accounts, News.com.au reports.
Emails and passwords of University of Queensland students and a high school student in central Queensland were also published along with logins at seven other Australian universities.
The hackers said the attacks were "just for kicks" and that the passwords in the recent leak were "a random assortment from a collection".
"So don't ask which site they're from or how old they are because we have no idea," the group said.
"Releasing 62,000 possible account combinations is the loot for creative minds to scour; think of it like digging a very unique mineshaft," it added.
Fraud Squad Detective Superintendent Brian Hay said the hackers had "delusions" they were helping people by exposing security flaws.
"The reality is these people are committing criminal acts and are stealing innocent people's details and publishing them to the detriment of everybody," Hay said.
"They think they're clever and laughing now but they're taking on organizations like the CIA and the FBI ," he added.
Lulz Security recently claimed crashing the CIA website and have also reportedly attacked Sony , Nintendo, the US Senate, the US Public Broadcasting System and Infraguard, a private company that works with the FBI.
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