LulzSec hackers force NI websites offline


by Sunny Hundal    
July 19, 2011 at 12:32 am

The hackers from the group LulzSec tonight took down forced offline the websites of News International papers including the Sun, The Times and Sunday Times.

The websites don’t work at the time of writing. Also not working, the parent company site: http://newsint.co.uk

Initially, Lulzsec targeted the Sun website specifically, re-directing it another site that featured the story below of Rupert Murdoch

Perhaps thinking it was in bad taste, they then re-directed the site to their own Twitter account.

News Int’l put out a statement in response saying their site was back up, but Lulzsec then took that down too.

One tweeter also started publishing mobile numbers of Sun journalists.

On Twitter, James Ball says News International took down their own nameservers to prevent them being attacked.

Benn Quinn of the Guardian confirms NI took down their own sites.

Here is what Lulzsec were saying on their twitter feed.

Developing…
(story has been updated several times)


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1. Hodge Podge

Word on the tubes is that News Int took down the sites themselves before they were defaced. You do realise they put a fake story about Murdoch killing himself on The Sun site?

2. orangebook LibDem

Do you approve of this action Sunny?

3. Leon Wolfson

*facepalm*

Lulzsec? STOP HELPING. Really.

4. Janvier

The suicide story wasn’t taken down out of bad taste. The number of retweets crashed the site that was hosting the fake page, so LulzSec had to alter the redirect to a page that could handle the traffic.

5. cardown

I wonder what encyclopedia dramatica make of this?

6. orangebook libdem

Love how sunny has totally failed to address my question

7. Mr S. Pill

HA!

Approve or not, you’ve got to love the irony of News International getting hacked. Live by the sword, etc.

8. notsunny

Orangebook – fucking hell, come on have a laugh, just cause your a libdem dont mean you have to be depressed about everything…they are only doing it for lulz


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