News and Politics | July 18, 2011 | 0 comments

News International news sites targeted by hackers

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Just as Rupert and James Murdoch faces questioning from the House of Commons, News International's news websites were targeted by hackers.

On Monday, hacker group LulzSec, came out of retirement by targeting The Sun website, directing visitors to a fake story. The Times website was also targeted earlier in the day when the site was inaccessable after a fake story appeared, not even their paywall survived this cyber attack. News International's website was also diverted to the fake story The fake stories were later taken down.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20080503-245/hackers-target-murdoch-newspaper-...
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