Hacker group Lizard Squad claimed credit Monday for hacking Malaysia Airlines' official website, which was unavailable for several hours.
During the outage, the site featured an image of a lizard, and a message saying "404 - Plane Not Found. Hacked by Lizard Squad - Official Cyber Caliphate."
The site is now fully restored, and no data was stolen -- according to Malaysia Airlines' post on Facebook.
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"Malaysia Airlines confirms that its Domain Name System (DNS) has been compromised where users are re-directed to a hacker website when www.malaysiaairlines.com URL is keyed in. At this stage, Malaysia Airlines’ web servers are intact," the company wrote on Facebook.
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The hackers, however, disagree. The group, known for taking credit for several DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live servers, claims it did steal an unspecified amount of data from Malaysia Airlines.
According to the hackers, the data will be released to the public "soon."
[MEDIA STATEMENT]: We would like to point out that @MAS is lying about user data not being compromised. Refer to earlier imgur link.— Lizard Squad (@LizardMafia) January 26, 2015
Going to dump some loot found on http://t.co/D9XYneQoaK servers soon— Lizard Squad (@LizardMafia) January 26, 2015
Malaysia Airlines came to the center of attention several times in 2014; first due to the disappearance of flight MH370, which carried 239 passengers and crew and was never found, and then again in July, after one of the company's planes was shot down over Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew.
Lizard Squad has been very active in 2014, claiming credit for several high-profile hacking attacks, often targeting Sony. The group also launched a commercial tool for performing a DDoS attack on websites. A member of the group was reportedly arrested in England on Dec. 31, 2014, in connection with a case of PayPal fraud.