LulzSec is back in Action.! Hacks daily newspaper "The Sun" Website.!

Looks like the Hacking Corp. LulzSec is back in action and so is TimesOfCommerce.

The infamous hacking group renown for repeatedly bringing down the websites of the Electronic-giant Sony is back in action, this time redirecting the home page of the  Murdoch owned  "The Sun" (sun.co.uk) to a fake story about the death of Mr. Murdoch from over-dosage of drugs  located on the Murdoch-Owned London Times URL http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun. 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 http://freze.it/pX)

LulzSec confirmed its responsibility for the hack with a couple of tweets promising more attacks, “We have owned Sun/News of the World – that story is simply phase 1 – expect the lulz to flow in coming days,,”"The Sun’s homepage now redirects to the Murdoch death story on the recently-owned New Times website. Can you spell success, gentlemen?” and “TheSun.co.uk now redirects to our twitter feed. Hello, everyone that wanted to visit The Sun! How is your day? Good? Good!”

The group also threatened that The Sun hacking went further than surface level, and tweeted out the emails and passwords of what are presumably Sun employees from the @LulzSec account, writing “We are showing you a very small surface; the real damage is currently giving the admins heart attacks.  .” Gizmodo is reporting that one of the employee passwords tweeted out by the Twitter account “Anonymousabu” belongs to the recently-arrested News International chief  Rebekah Brooks.

TechCrunch Europe is also reporting that LulzSec also circumvented a News International attempt to post a statement about The Sun attack. That site isn’t loading at all for me.

Just when you though this News Corp story couldn’t get any worse, it did (Just add LulzSec!). But still, punishing the unscrupulous hacking of a murdered girl’s phone (among other things) with more hacking might not be the most coherent way to get your message across.

The group is now claiming to have taken down News International’s DNS servers, bringing all 1,024 News International sites down.




source: TechCrunch

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