Lady Gaga hacked gang of hackers known as SwagSec announce at the tail end of last week that they had hack into Lady Gaga’s UK website and complete off with a database of names and email addresses of fans. To show their point, they published the stolen data online.
The press reported that a source close to Lady Gaga said that she was:
“Upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen”
If she was trouble, she made no talk about of the hack on her Twitter page, and posts no request for forgiveness to her UK fans for the poor website safety. She wasn’t, though, too upset to chirp about Emmy award nomination or to drop a line to Cher about doing a duet remix.
Though its right that the establishment should be knowledgeable regarding SwagSec’s illegal behavior, there is supposed to certainly be some credit at Gaga HQ that perhaps the website was doing a lousy job at securing its fans’ information? Lady Gaga’s record label, worldwide, said it had inveterate that the hack had occurred and said that police had been informed.
“The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a part of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken. We take this very gravely and have put in place additional measures to protect for myself particular information. All those affected have been advised.”
The risk to users who had their details compromise, of course, is that they could have been the theme of targeted attacks. Imagine how many of them might have opened an attachment or clicked on a link if they received an email claim to be about free tickets for a Lady Gaga concert, or a sneak sample of her new video. But although Universal says that it has contacted everyone who was exaggerated – can they be confident that they know the extent of SwagSec’s hack? After all, the hack is claim to have occurred weeks ago, but was only made public by SwagSec at the end of previous week.
Wouldn’t it be more open and transparent to have a message to fans of the Lady Gaga UK website, telling them all what occurred? I went looking and couldn’t find anything to warn the wider array of Lady Gaga fans.