At around 4.00 pm ET, Lizard Squad hacked,defaced and took over the Lenovo website.
while on other side lizard squad tweeted:
Meanwhile users who visited Lenovo.com were shown a slideshow of some rambling teenagers and a background song was playing “Breaking Free” from High School Musical.
Jonathan Zdziarski
There's your problem, @lenovo.
After around 15 minutes, Lenovo security team gained back partial control of the website but it was not fully operational. The background music was heard by visitors even later in the day, while the defaced page, possibly cached version, was seen intermittently by some visitors.
At around 5.30 pm ET, Lenovo got back the full of control ofwebsite and visitors were shown the below mentioned message :
The Lenovo Web site is currently unavailable but will return soon. To place or check on the status of an order or for any other enquiries, please contact a Lenovo representative during regular business hours.
The hackers, Lizard Squad put a message taunting Lenovo in the source code which said, “the new and improved rebranded Lenovo website featuring Ryan King and Rory Andrew Godfrey.”
Both Ryan and Rory are allegedly members of the Lizard Squad. From the first evaluation, the hack looks like a DNS poisoning or spoofing where the hackers hijacked Lenovo’s domain record and redirect the Lenovo.com url to a new server under which was undertheir control and serving their webpage. Therefore it doesnt seem likely that Lizard Squad accessed Lenovo servers however the site still being down, it is hard to come to any conclusion.
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