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LulzSec is back making headlines for itself with an attack aimed at Rupert Murdoch, beleaguered boss of News Corporation. Hackers broke into into servers belonging to News International, the News Corp subsidiary that owns Murdoch's UK newspapers, and published a fake report of the media mogul's death. Masquerading as a copy of daily tabloid The Sun, the report claimed that Murdoch ingested a large quantity of palladium before stumbling into his garden and dying.

The bogus page was published on a hacked server used to host a preview of upcoming changes to another News International paper, The Times. The hackers then forced The Sun's homepage to redirect to the hacked server. The influx of traffic rapidly overwhelmed the preview server, causing it to generate errors and subsequently get taken down. The redirect currently goes to LulzSec's Twitter page. The reason for this peculiar scheme is apparently that the The Times system has been rooted; the The Sun machine has not.

Individuals affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous are also claiming to have hacked into News International's mail servers, with a press release due tomorrow. News International is, of course, being targeted in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal that has already caused the resignation of several high-ranking executives within the Murdoch empire, and the closure of the newspaper in question.

Earlier in the day, tweets were also made purporting to be the e-mail addresses and password of various News International employees, including former Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks.

im just glad to see and hear LulzSec is back lol

loooooooooooooooooooooool

Good. This moron is actively complaining about the decision on SOPA on Twitter, one of the sites that would be at risk under the bill's original wording. Ignorant twat.

That's crossing the line. You don't do that. They better pray that they don't get caught.

They aren't dumb, they won't be caught.

That's what anonymous said, then the FBI swept in and detained half a dozen of them. Pussy hackers are gonna get raped in prison.

Murdoch, what goes around comes around.

Anonymous is not a single entity. The FBI detained a few people who were acting on their own, as far as I remember, and it ended up being pretty much worthless (except for those people, obviously). Murdoch is scum and deserves all the negative press he can possibly get, legitimate or false.

Yeah, sure, I don't like the man either, but to go on his newspaper and say that he died is too far. I'd even take that as a death threat if I was him. He's the 13th most powerful man in the world, owns the 2nd largest media network, and has 7 and a half billion dollars. I'm expecting payback.

Nice to see Lulzsec is back