Indeed. Looks like the hackers have been hacked into themselves, Monday night. It is kinda poetic. LulzSec, a hacktivist group, who claimed responsibility for some high profile cyber attacks like having taken the CIA website off line and compromising user accounts from Sony Pictures, have hacked into News International last night. You can read more about LulzSec here. It appears they’ve not only hacked into user accounts and emails, but they’ve played some musical site redirections, leading to a fake story about the sudden demise of Rupert Murdoch.
The group also redirected visitors to the main News International website to the LulzSec Twitter feed
Taking webmail and remote access offline was the only way that News International could be sure that nobody from the group who might have access to the details can log in and steal emails belonging to staff.
In a note sent out to all News International staff at 11.05pm on Tuesday night, soon after LulzSec hacked a server in the company’s systems to redirect people visiting the Sun‘s main web page to a faked story suggesting Rupert Murdoch had been found dead, the company said there has been a “security breach”.
I woulda loved to have been a fly on the wall at the News International offices, when folks were all aghast, wondering if the big boss had finally kicked the bucket.
Apparently, LulzSec will be releasing an email archive they extracted later today, if they haven’t already.
Yep, ol’ Rupert and his friends and partners in crime are about to get a taste of their own medicine, in addition to everything else coming to them, along with everyone else they have or about to take down with them. How does it feel, Mr. Murdoch? Sometimes, what goes around does come around, indeed.