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Popular singer-songwriter Lady's Gaga's UK website was hacked by a group of cyber attackers.
Hackers have managed to break into Lady Gaga's website and leaked information about its registered users, prompting the pop star's record label to contact the police.
SwagSec is a new group that targets artists and the music industry. Its members have so far hacked the websites of Amy Winehouse, Lauren Pritchard, Justin Bieber and the Klaxons.
Several sources report that Swag Seg, a US based group that (according to DigitalSpy) publicly revealed its plans to attack the websites of Gaga and fellow pop stars Amy Winehouse and Justin Bieber. The hack allegedly took place on June 27, with names and email addresses being lifted, but the information was only made public this week.
Gaga’s overseas label, Universal, contacted the authorities, revealing that “the hackers took a content database dump from ladygaga.co.uk and a section of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken.” Well, thank goodness for that!
The label also stated that they “take this very seriously and have put in place additional measures to protect personally identifiable information. All those affected have been advised.”
Gaga is reportedly upset about the matter, and hopes that the cops will be able to solve this case and problem. We really hope that this security breach doesn’t cause Gaga to pull back from her activity in the digital realm. We’re also glad to hear that the hack wasn’t much worse, since it could have been.