Instead of his usual appearance The homepage of the company portal showed a few hours photographs of teenagers accompanied by songs and a group of hackers called “Lizard Squad” claimed the attack on one of their Twitter accounts.
A Then the company, which does not officially acknowledged having been the victim of a cyber attack nor related what happened to the action of pirates, published on its website a message of apology in nine languages.
“Right now the site web is not available, but the service will be restored as soon as possible. To check or check the status of an order and any questions you might have, please contact your sales Lenovo to help in whatever precise “, it read on the website of the firm.
However, Lizard Squad, the group hacking the PlayStation and Xbox portals Christmas was attributed, claimed responsibility via Twitter profileLizardCircle, which also released screenshots with emails sent Lenovo employees.
The computer maker is criticized in recent weeks following the factory installation of software Superfish , a program introducing advertisements among results of searches performed on the Internet.
The program has vulnerabilities and threatens to users.
The Chinese firm apologized, announced that it had ceased to include this program in their devices and opened a hotline for customers to resolve potential problems created by this software.
“We decided to install Superfish in some notebooks, something that frustrated many users and therefore decided to remove it from preinstallation. Then we saw reports of a vulnerability created by this software and take immediate action to remove. Clearly, this raised concerns among our customers, partners and those who care about Lenovo, industry and technology in general. For this, I apologize again, “he said.
In its brief, Hortensius acknowledges that the reputation of the company was affected and planning” send safer products “to consumers.
Anyway, it emerged that a user group analyzes file a class action.
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