Sun website hacked by LulzSec. News International websites for the Times and the Sun were taken down last night after hackers targeted the Sun's web pages and redirected traffic to another page falsely reporting that Rupert Murdoch had been found dead. The LulzSec hacking collective hacked the tabloid's site, and also claimed to be "sitting on their [the Sun's] emails" and that they would release the emails on Tuesday. They tweeted what they claimed was Rebekah Brooks's email address, and said they knew her password combination. The breach was apparently the first hack of a major UK newspaper's website.
News International's corporate web page also appeared to have been disabled after News International technicians took down pages for the Times such as thetimes.co.uk as a precautionary measure. LulzSec has previously targeted companies including Nintendo. The hoax story suggested Murdoch had taken [the rare-earth metal] "palladium" before "stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night". LulzSec annonce la mort de Murdoch. Murdoch's Sun newspaper hacked by LulzSec - Jul. 18. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The News Corp. phone-hacking scandal took another dramatic twist Monday when the publishing empire got a taste of its own medicine: Hackers seized control of the website of The Sun, the sister publication of the recently shuttered News of the World.
The website briefly displayed a fake news story announcing that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch had been found dead. Soon after, the site began redirecting to the @LulzSec Twitter feed of Lulz Security, a hacker collective that has breached the websites of Sony, PBS and the U.S. Senate, among others. Late last month, the group said it was disbanding, but it seems to have been lured out of retirement for the operation it dubbed #MurdochMeltdownMonday. "We have joy we have fun, we have messed up Murdoch's Sun," LulzSec proclaimed on its Twitter feed.
News International's site was offline Monday night because of the high traffic surge. News Corp. representatives did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Murdoch’s Sun Newspaper Hacked. Le site du Sun piraté. Le site Internet du Sun a été piraté ce soir.
Vers 23h30, la page d'accueil du tabloïd britannique redirigeait vers un article annonçant la mort de Rupert Murdoch, le patron du groupe News Corp., qui détient le quotidien ainsi que l'hebdomadaire News of the World, au centre du scandale des écoutes téléphoniques en Grande-Bretagne. Ce canular serait l'oeuvre du groupe LulzSec, qui s'était déjà illustré en piratant les systèmes informatiques de Sony, de la Fox ou de Nintendo, et en publiant par la suite des données personnelles d'internautes (mots de passe, adresses postales, numéros de téléphone).
Les hackers de LulzSec piratent le site du "Sun" et annoncent la mort de Murdoch. Le Monde.fr avec AFP et Reuters | • Mis à jour le Le groupe de pirates Internet LulzSec, qui avait annoncé à la fin de juin la fin de sa campagne de canulars, est à nouveau passé à l'action lundi 18 juillet en attaquant plusieurs sites du groupe de médias News Corporation de Rupert Murdoch, publiant notamment une fausse information sur la mort de l'homme d'affaires australo-américain en "une" du site du Sun.
Selon une capture d'écran de l'article mis en ligne par LulzSec et publiée par le site d'informations spécialisé TechCrunch,"Rupert Murdoch, le magnat des médias controversé, a été, selon certaines informations, retrouvé mort dans son jardin", après avoir ingéré "une grande quantité de palladium", un métal utilisé dans les alliages dentaires.
Vers minuit et demi, les internautes tentant de visiter la page du Sun se retrouvaient redirigés vers le fil Twitter de LulzSec. LulzSec annonce la fausse mort de Rupert Murdoch.