LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal

nk497 writes "LulzSec have come out of retirement to target Rupert Murdoch's News International, hacking the website of The Sun, redirecting it first to a spoofed page reporting his death and then to Lulz's Twitter feed. 'The Sun's homepage now redirects to the Murdoch death story on the recently-owned New Times website,' the hackers said via Twitter. 'Can you spell success, gentlemen?' The hackers also started to post email addresses and passwords they claimed were from Sun staff, and said to have accessed a mail server at now-defunct News of the World."

News Corp is making themselves out as victims

[SpazmodeusG]

Link [google.com]

News Corp was already pushing this storey as if they are victims, I see no good from actually giving them something to claim victimisation over.

Re:Hacking? DDoS is more like it...

[norriefc]

I don't see hacking, I only noticed the domain won't resolve. So its back to ddos again, as always. Lame; guess the only "inteligence" here is that they seem to have targeted the DNS server.

Totally not impressed here.

That's only because NI went scorched earth and took down all their NI UK based websites. There are screenshots and videos floating about the net

Re:Is this what it has come down to?

[Xtravar]

He's mistaking "elected" with "electrocuted". Yes, they elect retards in Texas.

Re:All down

[scubamage]

Their DNS server got taken down, and their admins have taken down public facing servers from what I've gathered.

Re:Is It Wrong?

[digitig]

Even the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan police have resigned, even though they had nothing to do with it, nor any knowledge of it going on.

Er -- Rebekah Brooks admitted to paying the police for information -- a criminal offence carrying a maximum penalty of £10000 or two years in prison -- in front of a select committee hearing in March 2003. If they had no knowledge of it going on that was either incompetence or a willful turning of a blind eye. Given the perks that the Commissioner got from from NI (which might be considered bribery in themselves) then their position was untenable.

Re:tampering with evidence?

[scubamage]

They can admit it in the US. The exclusionary clause protects you from a government search. It does nothing to protect you from someone breaking in to your PC, stealing your hard drive, and then turning it over to the police when they find kiddie porn.

Re:Is this what it has come down to?

[delinear]

It's also definitely worth noting that the police had all of the relevant information to uncover this whole scandal at least two years ago (and they knew some of it over five years ago) and yet they did nothing. They even admitted in the official enquiry that their response was severely lacking. If the police aren't doing their job then surely that's precisely the time for vigilantism - they're meant to be protecting us from this kind of crap.