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Hackers Take On Rupert Murdoch-Owned The Sun, Post Fake Article About His Death

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The hacking collective LulzSec (or Lulz Security) has hacked a News International-owned website and have published a fake Sun article about Rupert Murdoch’s death of a drug overdose.

Well, on the upside, Fox & Friends will now be able to tell the difference between phone hacking and being hacked.

LulzSec is the group behind a number of recent high profile hacks including a couple on Murdoch-owned properties. They have also had a history with the Sun which they called “the shittiest UK publication in existence.”

Interestingly, at this time, the hackers have not posted the story on The Sun’s official website, instead hacking the News International-owned http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun/ address and creating a redirect so that, when someone tries to go to the official site, it sends them to the story.

The story is currently hard to load presumably due to traffic, but here is the text of the article:

Media moguls body discovered
By STAFF REPORTER
Published: Today
Rupert Murdoch, the controversial media mogul, has reportedly been found dead in his garden, police announce.
Murdoch, aged 80, has said to have ingested a large quantity of palladium before stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night, passing out in the early hours of the morning.

“We found the chemicals sitting beside a kitchen table, recently cooked,” one officer states. “From what we can gather, Murdoch melted and consumed large quantities of it before exiting into his garden.”

Chemicals found in house
Authorities would not comment on whether this was a planned suicide, though the general consensus among locals and unnamed sources is that this is the case.

One detective elaborates. “Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle.”

Another officer reveals that Murdoch was found slumped over a particularly large garden hedge fashioned into a galloping horse. “His favourite”, a butler, Davidson, reports.

Butler Davidson has since been taken into custody for additional questioning.

The hack was announced on LulzSec’s Twitter:


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  • skyfet

    Talk about scum of the Earth. The Sun is the literal meaning. 

  • Anonymous

    actually lulzsec changed redirect to their twitter page now

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    The end justifies the means, right?

  • Anonymous

    He who hacks last hacks best.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NUT75XKRMJZ2QZJUUWOYH7Y7TA Cincy

    Think there will be any outrage or that Scotland Yard will look into this? Nah, me neither.

    They’re not associated with FNC

  • Anonymous

    for the left……yes

  • Anonymous

    for the left……yes

  • Anonymous

    Why doesn’t it surprise me that Jon actually sees an “upside” to this story?

    So typical, so funny.

  • Anonymous

    Why doesn’t it surprise me that Jon actually sees an “upside” to this story?

    So typical, so funny.

  • Jester345

    LOL

    You reap what you sow.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Liberals are like little children throwing fits
    because things don’t go the way they want it and they now see that the plan of
    burning Murdoch in UK falling apart so they do the first childish thing that
    came to mind hack the Sun with their diluted dreams. Sorry kiddies not funny.

  • Anonymous

    Two wrongs don’t make a right.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Wrong, they are just doing it for the LULZ.

  • Frod

    I think that the joke might be to wonder how long it takes for the worlds most powerful newsman to refute a claim that he is dead. Are people seriously comparing this to interfering with the investigation  of a murdered child?

  • Anonymous

    All of those who think these fake articles and the entire NOTW/Murdoch debacle are so hilarious need to stop and think about the ramifications to legitimate news. It is not at all funny to me. There are far too many who have engaged in tabloid gossip about a tabloid gossip rag. The entire news industry seems to have descended pretty rapidly away from legitimate journalism in the last ten years and now it’s picking up speed.

  • Anonymous

    Have anything that shows Lutz Security to be liberal?

  • Frod

    No, I think not being dead is a reasonably easy claim to refute. They are making reasonable political satire.

  • Glenn Bovine

    LulzSec got into the Arizona police files and now The Sun!

    Chinga Rupert!

    Pardon my French. I mean to say, the word is coming to an end!

  • Anonymous

    Good point, but methinks it has less to do with the tabloid nature of the story than competitors, both in the marketplace and especially those with editorial differences, sensing blood in the water and for that reason trying to drive events by their coverage rather than report on them.  Several recent events bring into perfect focus the degeneracy of main stream media sources into little but advocates for power, as when they go into a tizzy at the prospect of revelations in Sarah Palin e-mail or when they fall all over themselves to ignore negative economic stories or other important news.  This is one of those times.

  • Anonymous

    Good point, but methinks it has less to do with the tabloid nature of the story than competitors, both in the marketplace and especially those with editorial differences, sensing blood in the water and for that reason trying to drive events by their coverage rather than report on them.  Several recent events bring into perfect focus the degeneracy of main stream media sources into little but advocates for power, as when they go into a tizzy at the prospect of revelations in Sarah Palin e-mail or when they fall all over themselves to ignore negative economic stories or other important news.  This is one of those times.

  • Anonymous

    Yup, If they can’t find blood, they’ll fabricate it.
    The shame of it is that a series of books could be written with examples to illustrate how the MSM has betrayed the public trust just covering the past decade alone.
    They’ve made it absolutely necessary for us to search the web in order to get the news we deserve.

  • Anonymous

    Instead of making Murdoch dead…I would have created a story about Murdoch getting abused by a dominatrix with pictures to boot. 

    That would be sweet justice in my opinion. More juicy story too. 

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