RUPERT MURDOCH FOUND DEAD......hoax !!!
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Hacking collective LulzSec has broken into the website of British tabloid The Sun and posted a story falsely reporting the death of Rupert Murdoch.
Readers visiting the homepage of the News International newspaper, <!-- m -->http://www.thesun.co.uk<!-- m -->, were redirected to the hoax story from around 7.30am AEST this morning, before the hackers sent readers to their own Twitter account at around 8.15am AEST. "Can you spell success, gentlemen?" the group boasted on its Twitter page.
Shortly after 9am AEST The Sun homepage address, one of the best-rating news websites in Britain, stopped linking to the Twitter message and simply recorded an error message.
LulzSec also threatened to release the email addresses of Sun staff members, including the that of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who resigned on Friday and was arrested on Sunday over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
The hacking group claimed this morning's hacking attack was "simply phase 1" in their campaign against Murdoch and that followers should "expect the lulz [a neologism for "laugh out loud"] to flow in coming days".
This morning's bogus story claimed that Murdoch, 80, was found dead in his garden after an overdose of palladium, a radioactive poison.
It reported an "officer" as saying: "We found the chemicals sitting beside a kitchen table, recently cooked. From what we can gather, Murdoch melted and consumed large quantities of it before exiting into his garden".
The story claimed the Australian-born media mogul took the poison before "stumbling into his famous topiary garden" — a reference to "Topiary", a Swedish-born hacker who lives in the Netherlands and is thought to run LulzSec's Twitter account.
The story also references the LulzSec mascot — a top hat and monocle-clad stick figure.
"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," it read.
LulzSec has previously claimed responsibility for hacking the websites of the CIA, Sony Pictures, and TV network PBS.
The six-member group announced late last month it was disbanding, but it has apparently reformed to attack News International.
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Hacking collective LulzSec has broken into the website of British tabloid The Sun and posted a story falsely reporting the death of Rupert Murdoch.
Readers visiting the homepage of the News International newspaper, <!-- m -->http://www.thesun.co.uk<!-- m -->, were redirected to the hoax story from around 7.30am AEST this morning, before the hackers sent readers to their own Twitter account at around 8.15am AEST. "Can you spell success, gentlemen?" the group boasted on its Twitter page.
Shortly after 9am AEST The Sun homepage address, one of the best-rating news websites in Britain, stopped linking to the Twitter message and simply recorded an error message.
LulzSec also threatened to release the email addresses of Sun staff members, including the that of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, who resigned on Friday and was arrested on Sunday over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
The hacking group claimed this morning's hacking attack was "simply phase 1" in their campaign against Murdoch and that followers should "expect the lulz [a neologism for "laugh out loud"] to flow in coming days".
This morning's bogus story claimed that Murdoch, 80, was found dead in his garden after an overdose of palladium, a radioactive poison.
It reported an "officer" as saying: "We found the chemicals sitting beside a kitchen table, recently cooked. From what we can gather, Murdoch melted and consumed large quantities of it before exiting into his garden".
The story claimed the Australian-born media mogul took the poison before "stumbling into his famous topiary garden" — a reference to "Topiary", a Swedish-born hacker who lives in the Netherlands and is thought to run LulzSec's Twitter account.
The story also references the LulzSec mascot — a top hat and monocle-clad stick figure.
"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," it read.
LulzSec has previously claimed responsibility for hacking the websites of the CIA, Sony Pictures, and TV network PBS.
The six-member group announced late last month it was disbanding, but it has apparently reformed to attack News International.
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Yes...how could they know that one is Swedish... <!-- s
What about the other 6?