LulzSec leftists hacked into the News Corp website and stole an email archive. They young leftists say they will release the stolen emails later today.

The hackers posted a fake “Murdock is dead” story on The Sun website.

(SMH)

The Register reported:

The hacktivists behind a hack on The Sun’s website claim to have extracted an email archive which they plan to release later on Tuesday.

News International’s systems were hacked on Monday night. As a result, visitors to The Sun’s website were redirected towards a fake story on the supposed death of Rupert Murdoch by infamous hacktivist collective LulzSec. The group also redirected visitors to the main News International website to the LulzSec Twitter feed. In addition, the hack may have allowed LulzSec to gain access to News International’s email database.

Sabu, a prominent member of LulzSec, said via Twitter that the group was sitting on emails of News International staffers that it planned to release on Tuesday.

In the meantime, Sabu released email login details for former News International chief exec Rebekah Brooks, a central figure in the News of the World voicemail-hacking scandal.

Brooks (then called Wade), edited The Sun between 2003 and 2009, and – at least according to LulzSec – had been using the password 63000 to access her email account at the paper. As IT blogger John Graham-Cumming points out, 63000 is the same number as the text tip-off line used by the Sun.

LulzSec also posted the supposed password hash – but not the password – of Bill Akass, former managing editor of the News of the World.

The hackers also posted the mobile phone numbers of three News International execs. This information seems to have come from, at best, an old database. The Telegraph reports that one of the phone numbers belongs to Pete Picton, a former online editor with The Sun who left to work on News Corp’s iPad-only publication, The Daily, last year. Another phone number belongs to Chris Hampartsoumian, an IT worker. Hampartsoumian recently announced, via Twitter, that he does not work for any News Corp firm.

 

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  1. #2 July 19, 2011 at 10:19 am

    bobdog commented:

    So, if I have this right, these hackers are planning to expose NewsCorp internal emails…because they committed the crime of…hacking?

    Is there a laugh track or something else I missed?

    Is this what passes for cheap irony these days?

  2. #3 July 19, 2011 at 10:22 am

    #1AMERICAN commented:

    i wish someone would hack oumbass’s emails…now that would be some startling illegal $hit right there in his accounts

  3. #5 July 19, 2011 at 10:28 am

    tom beebe st louis commented:

    No use hacking the email of NBC/CNBC/MSNBC. Their dumba$$ foolishness is right out in the open every day.

  4. #6 July 19, 2011 at 10:29 am

    Gimme a Break commented:

    Why is it okay to hack the e-mails of a corporation the left doesn’t like but JUST. PLAIN. AWFUL. when somebody allegedly hacks (still umproven that hacking was involved) into the global warming fraudmeisters’ e-mails at the University of East Anglia?

  5. #7 July 19, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Guy in Ohio commented:

    #1 – BINGO! We have another winner! My thoughts exactly. Were is the laugh track?

  6. #8 July 19, 2011 at 10:39 am

    Guy in Ohio commented:

    Well bobdog, I guess you’re #2 now …anyway … what I said ….

  7. #9 July 19, 2011 at 10:39 am

    The Tonester commented:

    Where is the outrage over the Executive Producer at CBS news forging, or at least broadcasting forged documents in an effort to smear a sitting president? WTF?

  8. #10 July 19, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Spartan commented:

    I’m wondering what ‘News’ orginization is going to publish this info KNOWING FULL WELL that the info was hacked? And just what makes this any different from the Main Stream Media (taking extreme pleasure in watching the Murdoch’s squirm) making this newsworthy? Isn’t the law of ‘hacking’ info illegal? And isn’t it ‘illegal’ not to report it if you recieve that info?? Then, producing a news story on alleged information hacked by a group who knowingly broke the law?

    Isn’t that what this is really all about?? Please explain the difference in what alledgedly News of the World did, and what the Media is doing now??

    Now, where the hell did I put that line in the sand????

  9. #11 July 19, 2011 at 10:49 am

    Redwine commented:

    I have a hunch that LulzSec is a Soros-linked organization. These criminals won’t face a moment of jail time, just like the leftist imbecile Assange from Wikileaks.

  10. #13 July 19, 2011 at 11:07 am

    CT commented:

    Maybe it is time for the victims of extra-legal hacking to extract some extra-legal payback. What if one day LulzSec and fellow travelers were to permanently disappear….just sayin.
    Deterrence anyone?

  11. #15 July 19, 2011 at 11:17 am

    Redwine commented:

    This calls to mind the idiot who hacked into Palin’s Yahoo account and is now doing prison time.

  12. #16 July 19, 2011 at 11:36 am

    gus commented:

    But President McFlapEars would NEVER spy on us. Right?

  13. #17 July 19, 2011 at 11:56 am

    Aitch748 commented:

    I’m just wondering if this “LulzSec” group is just really good at getting into websites, or is it that The Sun is just really bad at securing their website against hacks? I’m not blaming the victim here, I’m just wondering how it is that we keep hearing about these leftist groups infiltrating websites with relative ease.

  14. #18 July 19, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    NeoKong commented:

    Somehow I get the feeling that the police will not treat this crime the same.

  15. #19 July 19, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Natural Born commented:

    What are the odds the operation against Murdoch is code named ‘Fast-er & Furious-er.’

  16. #20 July 19, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    valerie commented:

    LulzSec has been around for a while. They like to pile on.

  17. #21 July 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    concreteblue commented:

    No, it is excellent irony, post #2…..
    and yes, if caught, they should be prosecuted…it would be nice if posters here thought the same of MUrdoch…..
    This story proves NewsCorp hacks in the US..
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/business/media/for-news-corporation-troubles-that-money-cant-dispel.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&sq=Floorgraphics&st=nyt&scp=1
    Where is the moral outrage, GPer’s?

  18. #22 July 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    concreteblue commented:

    “It is as if Orville Redenbacher had framed News Corp. in his own self-interest…
    There’s a conspiracy theory for ya’ “

  19. #23 July 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    ER commented:

    the leader of LulzSec (not Sabu) may not be so “young”…
    it will be interesting to see what LulzSec ends up releasing *after* the talks with Murdoch’s people yesterday, whether they reached a deal so go mild, or not

  20. #24 July 19, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    reliapundit commented:

    according to the lame-stream media and they leftists who dominate it:

    when leftists hack into private sites or classified sites and steal info they’re heroes.

    but when sleazy reporters do it to celebrities and a murder victim, then they’re pariahs AND the self-made billionaire who is about 5 layers removed from them should be executed.

    INSANE.

  21. #25 July 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    like sharks on a feeding frenzy.. :-|

    ==

  22. #26 July 19, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Island Girl commented:

    Bring back the county switchboards !

    Gladys & Mildred knew everything .

    But were not asked & did not tell.

  23. #28 July 21, 2011 at 8:33 am

    Nathan Hulse commented:

    “Why is it okay to hack the e-mails of a corporation the left doesn’t like but JUST. PLAIN. AWFUL. when somebody allegedly hacks (still umproven that hacking was involved) into the global warming fraudmeisters’ e-mails at the University of East Anglia?”

    Two Points:

    1) What else do you call unsoliticed access to email records? Why prove what does not need to be proven? Emails were obtained by shady means – hacking, cracking – call it what you will.

    2) However, the allegations of fraud remain just that. No further evidence emerged to suggest that anyone genuinely suspected cynical manipulation of statistical data. The seeds of doubt were enough, no proof is required it appears.

    Yes, Lulzsec are politically naive, immature fools. The fact the they happen to be pseudo revolutionary anti-capitalists is a source of ire for the political left too; mainly because a minority of highly vocal right-wing opportunists would use it to condone, by implication, the truly inexcusable.

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