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. It put up the fake Sun web page after finding a way into the News International system and changing the code for the breaking news banner on the Sun's site. 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.
It also claimed to have "wrecked" Murdoch's News International website and altered one of the news statements posted there. On Sunday, Rebekah Brooks, a former top News Corp. Phone hacking: LulzSec take down The Sun | 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 internet pranksters who attacked the CIA and gaming giants Sony and Nintendo have taken down The Sun website. The homepage of of the British tabloid carried a hoax story announcing the death of Sun owner Rupert Murdoch. The story said the head of News Corp, publisher of The Sun and news.com.au, had been found dead in his garden after an overdose. Hacking group LulzSec claimed responsibility on their Twitter account. The fake story read: "Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle.
" Vendetta. 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. We’re Sitting on Trove of ‘The Sun’ Email. LulzSec Hacks ‘The Sun,’ Redirects Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story.
Looks like hacker group LulzSec is back in action, this time redirecting the homepage of the Murdoch-owned The Sun ( to a fake story about Murdoch’s death from a drug overdose located on the Murdoch-owned URL used to broadcast the London Times’ redesign After the amount of requests caused a 404 failure on the Times site, the group then redirected The Sun’s homepage to the @LuzSec Twitter account. (The original page is archived at From what I can see the fake story was meant to mirror an actual The Sun story about the latest development in the messy Murdoch/New Corp/News of the World scandal, “Ex News of the World journalist found dead.” After about 10 minutes of being up (and I swear the real Sun homepage was redirecting) the fake story was pulled from the UK Times site. Just when you though this News Corp story couldn’t get any worse, it did (Just add LulzSec!).
GDrOk.png (1242×737) Murdoch Dead on Sun site. Screencap. #pwnd #hacked. Sky News Reporting @LulzSec www.thesun.co.uk Hack, Call them ' Annoymous & call them louise ' fail