DerpTrolling Hackers Take Responsibility for Leaking Login Credentials of PSN, 2K Windows Live Accounts

We all take security and our personal information for granted these days. Even so, those of us that play online games using the latest and greatest gaming system feel as if what little bit of personal information we submit over the Internet is lost in translation to the point that no hacker would want to bother it. As it turns out, hackers are ramping up efforts to attack popular online gaming services as they have collected a list of 5,604 usernames and passwords belonging to active users of the PlayStation Network, 2K and Windows Live services.

Computer hackers naturally take pride in their accomplishments from comprising a few hundred login credentials on a small network to massive attacks on corporate entities. There is virtually no shame in a hackers game of stealing data, and this time data on several popular online gaming networks are their prize.

In a recent attack on the PlayStation Network, 2K and Windows Live gaming services, a hacker group dubbed DerpTrolling has taken the liberty to publish 5,604 login credentials of active users. So far, the hacker group has claimed that this data is only a small portion of what they have stolen from those computer systems. As far as the reach of this hacking incident, the DerpTrolling hacker group has claimed that they obtained as much as 800,000 logins from 2K alone. Another 200,000 of the logins belong to 2K and as many as 1.7 million are logins for EA Origin accounts.

If you have never heard of the hacker group DerpTrolling, it's okay because they seem to be a rather new group in the hacker landscape that started in 2011, and over the past few years have just got their sea legs for attacking several entities in the vast ocean of the internet. From our research, it seems DerpTrolling has a close knit network of systems they attack, and a primary group lies within online gaming networks.

In what appears to be a "coming out party" for DerpTrolling, the current hacking attack is their way of establishing a reputation for being serious hackers in the cyber outlaw community, as they have bluntly put it in recent posts via PasteBin. As far as being taken seriously in the hacker community, DerpTrolling has so far raised some eyebrows but not to the point of being thought as destructive as groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, which have been exceedingly successful with many DDoS attacks in the past.

Despite the newness and short-stacked accomplishments of DerpTrolling, their recent attack on the PlayStation Network, 2K and Windows Live services should be evident of their emerging efforts to be a feared hacker group. The recent attacks on such networks should not be taken lightly and is only further proof of how the proliferation of hackers is reaching new heights with emerging hacker groups.