Hackers breach Murdoch’s UK Sun newspaper website

Hackers broke into Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid,altered front page to show fake report about media mogul's death.

Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page of the Sun to show a fake report about the media mogul’s death.

The hackers redirected visitors to the twitter feed of hacker group Lulz Security,which came to prominence after several cyber assaults on the websites of Sony Corp,the CIA and News Corp’s Fox TV. We have owned Sun/News of the World,LulzSec posted on Twitter on Monday,when Tuesday’s front page story on The Sun’s website read Media moguls body discovered.

News International,the British subsidiary of Murdoch’s News Corp,is at the centre of a phone hacking scandal rocking his business empire,British politicians and senior police.

On Monday,LulzSec member Sabu tweeted the hackers were sitting on (Sun/News of the World) emails and would release a statement on Tuesday.

Sabu also begun to tweet what it said were the contact details and logins of News International employees including ex-chief executive Rebekah Brooks. It was not possible to verify if the details were genuine.

News International said the company was aware of what was happening and that the company’s technical teams were working on the it.

In late June,the hacker group said it was disbanding with one last data dump,which included internal AOL INC and AT&T documents.