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". 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. Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews. LulzSec claimed responsibility for the attack on their Twitter acount.
The have had it in for The Sun since the paper published stories about a British teen charged with hacking Sony and Nintendo sites. Picture: Twitter Source: Supplied. The Sun's website 'hacked by LulzSec' The hacking group LulzSec took credit for the attack on Twitter, saying: "We have owned Sun/News of the World".
Viewers of the tabloid website were redirected to a mocked up news story with the headline "Media moguls body discoverd [sic]". The story continued: "Murdoch, aged 80, has said to have ingested a large quantity of palladium before stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night, passing out in the early hours of the morning. " The website later redirected to the Lulzsec Twitter feed, where the anonymous group crowed: "We have joy we have fun, we have messed up Murdoch's Sun". The group is believed to have been responsible for bringing down the websites of the CIA, the US Senate and Britain's Serious and Organised Crime Agency. Last month, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary was arrested at his home in Essex on suspicion of being involved in the group, which is being investigated by both the FBI and the Metropolitan Police.
News International could not be reached for comment. LulzSec: So remember that secret pa... LulzSec: Arrest us. We dare you. We... AnonNewsNet: @LulzSec Word to the wise:... Anon2060: In just under 2hrs, 4 of M... Atopiary: We were gonna start our ow... AnonNewsNet: Plans to deface #NewsCorp... LulzSec: Thank you for the love ton... AnonymousIRC: TANGO DOWN. Jamesrbuk: Looks like the entirety of... LulzSec say they'll release big Murdoch email archive. High performance access to file storage The hacktivists behind a hack on The Sun's website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday.
News International's systems were hacked on Monday night. As a result, visitors to The Sun's website were redirected towards a fake story on the supposed death of Rupert Murdoch by infamous hacktivist collective LulzSec. The group also redirected visitors to the main News International website to the LulzSec Twitter feed. In addition, the hack may have allowed LulzSec to gain access to News International's email database. Sabu, a prominent member of LulzSec, said via Twitter that the group was sitting on emails of News International staffers that it planned to release on Tuesday. In the meantime, Sabu released email login details for former News International chief exec Rebekah Brooks, a central figure in the News of the World voicemail-hacking scandal.
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