The group posted the photo of bookings made with MAS on the Lizard Squad Twitter account @LizardMafia which included a booking made by International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed from Subang (Selangor) to Kota Baru (Kelantan).
MAS earlier issued a statement insisting its website was secure after a message posted by an entity claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) militant group appeared on the flag carrier's website front page.
Mocking the statement by the embattled national carrier, the group posted: "[MEDIA STATEMENT]: We would like to point out that @MAS is lying about user data not being compromised. Refer to earlier imgur link."
"@MAS Are you really that clueless? Wait until we package this nice present for you," it also said after posting a link to the photo with the bookings with "lolol" (which means laughing out loud).
After news of the hacking broke, the group scoffed at MAS and posted on its account, "Write Lizard Squad on your forehead, thanks. @MAS"
The Lizard Squad is a group of hackers that has caused havoc in the online world before, taking credit for attacks that took down the Sony PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live network last month.
This morning, the national airline's website showed the message “404 - Plane not found”, and was signed off as “Cyber Caliphate”, as a rap song played in the background.
The website title was also changed to “Isis will prevail”, referring to the extremist Sunni Muslim group which has seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq, where it declared an Islamic "caliphate".
An AFP report said the hackers claimed to be from the "Lizard Squad", a group known for previous denial-of-service (DOS) attacks.
However, MAS later said the incident was not hacking, rather, users were redirected to a hacker website when they keyed in www.malaysiaairlines.com, due to a compromise on its Domain Name System (DNS) which translates a domain name to the Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Hundreds of Malaysia Airlines passengers complained it was hard to access details of bookings due to the compromised DNS.
- TMI
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