“This was the work of Lulz Security, dear media,” the group tweeted Monday night. The group also whipped up and linked to a fake version of The Sun’s homepage with a false story outlining Murdoch’s death (click to view screenshot). LulzSec hackers also posted the alleged username and password of The Sun’s network administrator.
To make matters worse for News Corp., on Tuesday news Websites are reporting that LulzSec claims to have a treasure-trove of internal e-mails from Murdoch-owned News International that it plans to release Tuesday. British website The Guardian reports News International‘s Web-based e-mail system was hacked by LulzSec.
One of the Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous didn’t appear to take full responsibility for the hack, though. “TANGO DOWN,” read the tweet. “To be honest, not quite sure why. Consulting lulzcats say it may be a domino effect like in the Arab world.”
The hacks come amid an unraveling scandal centering around News Corp.-owned News of the World being accused of hacking the voice mail of hundreds of private U.K. citizens.
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