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The Sun website hacked by LulzSec

The hacking group returned after saying it was disbanding last month.

Users of sun.co.uk were redirected to this page
Users of sun.co.uk were redirected to this page
Image: Screengrab via sun.co.uk

THE WEBSITE OF The Sun newspaper, owned by News International, was taken down last night by the hacking collective LulzSec which redirected users to a page reporting – falsely – that Rupert Murdoch had been found dead.

LulzSec claimed that as well as hacking the website it was “sitting on their [the Sun's] emails”.

The group also tweeted what they claimed was former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks’ email address, and said they knew her password combination.

News International told BBC News it was aware of what was happening but made no further comment. Its corporate website was taken down as a precaution and remains down this morning.

It is also reported that the website of another Murdoch-owned paper The Times was taken down but it is online again.

The phoney Sun homepage:

LulzSec said it was disbanding last month giving no reason for doing so after it had come to prominence for carrying out hacks on major entertainment companies including Sony and Nintendo, FBI partner organisations, the CIA, the US Senate and a pornography website.

In one tweet last night, the group said: “Arrest us. We dare you. We are the unstoppable hacking generation…”

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Comments (15 Comments)

  • Couldn’t have happened to a nicer publication. Lulz is a hero on Merseyside that’s for sure.

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  • being hacked is a horrible feeling dont you think mr murdoch and ms brooks? karmas a bitch!

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  • Prophetic one hopes

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  • @ Daimhín De Naois

    Fine Gale is the largest party in the country. Both in terms of elected seats and party members. Fine Gael is the most popular party in the contry. Enda Kenny has a 65% approval rating, the party is a 48%(?). These are facts. Deal with it.

    @ Abi Dennis

    Agreed. However, they are taking charge of the issue now, vigilante justice is needed and this stunt doesn’t help or further expose any wrong doing.

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    • Daniel, youre straying away from your original FG comment which is what i responded to. Also dont bother pushing stats from surveys of 1000 people as they hold no weight.

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    • They hold no weight? LOL. The companies poll numbers has acuratlety predicted the last three elections. Anyway, just look at the elected seats.

      The bums lost Lebowski.

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    • I dont think there was a person in the country that didnt know how the election was going to turn out and what i meant by them holding no weight was in response to your “fact, deal with it” as a survey of 1000 people is not factual evidence for the mind set of over 5million, fact. Also with regards to the predictions for elections its well known that the media spin has a certain amount of weight so by a survey being posted at all some will automatically follow the larger percentage. Polls should not be used in the run up to elections in any way.

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    • Daimhín do you think it was an accident they won? Did they trip slip and fall in to government? People voted them in. Accept it.

      Sounds to me like more of your hippie socialist whining.

      Since you love to give out personal advice… Here’s an idea: get off the dole, get a haircut, quit your shit band and put your girlfriend on a diet. You’re a fuckin’ loser mate.

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    • Daniel i wont lower myself to your utterly pre-pubescent pityful depths and ill point out once again you have strayed completely from your original FG comment which i responded to, the obliteration of FF was the reason FG got into power, not because so many are ‘proud’ FG supporters.

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