Lizard Squad hacking group defaces Lenovo website with goofy webcam selfies of teen

New Delhi: After the SuperFish controversy, Lenovo again got into trouble when hackers turned its official website into a teen's selfie slideshow.

Lizard Squad, which is a hacking group, took over Lenovo's homepage and posted images of a teen with a funny haircut posing for the webcam and the song "Breaking Free" from the movie "High School Musical" playing in the background. The slideshow gave out link to the group's Twitter account, Gizmodo reported.

Lizard Squad posted an email exchange between Lenovo employees discussing Superfish. The software was at the centre of public uproar in the United States last week when security researchers said they found it allowed hackers to impersonate banking websites and steal users' credit card information.

On it's official Twitter page, the squad admitted having hacked Lenovo's homepage. It has also admitted that it took over Google's Vietnam site too.

Lenovo said attackers breached the domain name system associated with Lenovo and redirected visitors to lenovo.com to another address, while also intercepting internal company emails.

In a statement issued in the United States on Wednesday night, Lenovo, the world's biggest maker of personal computers, said it had restored its site to normal operations after several hours.

"We regret any inconvenience that our users may have if they are not able to access parts of our site at this time," the company said. "We are actively reviewing our network security and will take appropriate steps to bolster our site and to protect the integrity of our users' information."

Although consumer data was not likely compromised by the Lizard Squad attack, the breach was the second security-related black eye for Lenovo in a matter of days.

A week earlier, Lenovo was embroiled in a controvery of an adware, Superfish, that came pre-installed with its laptops and exposed the device to hack attacks.

The company later released recovery tools and guide to uninstallation of the program, however, this latest hack attack on its website seems to question its own security.

With input from agencies ####

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