Cable and Internet giant Comcast Corporation found itself on the receiving end of a concentrated online attack late last week when disgruntled teenage hackers claiming to be from the group ‘Kryogeniks’ hijacked the Comcast Web mail portal and caused user chaos for the Philadelphia-based business.

Effects of the attack lasted for more than five hours on Wednesday evening, breaching around 200 domain names, crippling the service, redirecting site traffic, and preventing users from accessing their personal e-mail accounts.

Anyone attempting to land on the site was instead shuffled to another site created by the hackers, which delivered the message: “KRYOGENIKS Defiant and EBK RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.”

And the proffered reasoning behind the Web mail attack? In a telephone interview given to Kevin Poulsen of Wired Magazine, hackers Defiant and EBK described their actions as a direct consequence of Comcast’s “shitty service.” more....