Hackers Vow to Release News Corp. Emails

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388693,00.asp

By Chloe Albanesius

Individuals associated with hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec said yesterday's hack of The Sun newspaper Web site also resulted in the collection of emails and passwords from that publication and the now-defunct News of the World.

"Sun/News of the world OWNED. We're sitting on their emails," a hacker known as Sabu tweeted yesterday.

Sabu went on to release the purported email and password for Rebekah Brooks (using her maiden name, Wade), the former News International chief who was arrested over the weekend for her alleged role in a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked parent company News Corporation. A fellow hacker known as anon_alex also posted log-in information for Bill Akass, managing editor of News of the World, which closed its doors in the wake of the scandal.

After a short break, hacker group LulzSec returned yesterday to deface the Web site for The Sun, posting a fake news story that reported the death of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. The move came after it was revealed that reporters at the News of the World hacked into the voicemails of a murder victim, those affected by terrorist attacks, and celebrities.

"Bring it on!!!"

S#i+ or get off the pot as my old man used to say.