Selasa, Juli 19, 2011
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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.
News International's site was offline Monday night because of the high traffic surge. Other sites in company's network, including the Times of London's website, also went down.
The carnage could get worse: LulzSec and Anonymous, an anarchic hacker group LulzSec often teams with, said they had also harvested e-mail addresses, password and phone numbers for some of News International and The Sun's top editors and executives. Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous blasted out a steady stream of what they claimed were the phone numbers and passwords.
News Corp. representatives did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The hacking comes amid the widening scandal hitting Murdoch's media empire. Late Monday, credit agency Standard & Poor's said it was placing News Corp.'s "BBB+" corporate credit rating on "CreditWatch Negative," meaning S&P may downgrade News Corp's credit within the next 90 days.
On Sunday, Rebekah Brooks, a former top News Corp. (NWSA, Fortune 500) executive, was arrested in connection with British police investigations into phone hacking and police bribery. She was released around midnight.
On Friday, Brooks resigned as chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, which published the News of the World and is part of News Corp.
[via - money.cnn.com]
