Just when parts of the Internet had breathed a sigh of relief at the"retirement" announcement of the hacking group LulzSec, the group seems to be back with a new attack on UK tabloid The Sun's website. The Sun is owned by News International, an organization owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, which has been in news recently for a phone hacking scandal in the UK, a scandal that has resulted in the firings of a number of senior editors employed by the company and the closure of the 168-year old News of the World tabloid.True to their modus operandi of attacking controversial entities, LulzSec hacked the Sun website and planted a hoax story claiming that Murdoch had been found dead in his garden after ingesting "a large quantity of palladium," an element used in manufacturing electrical equipment. People trying to access the Sun website were instead being redirected to another site with this story. The site stopped working soon after and instead visitors to The Sun site were being redirected to LulzSec's Twitter account.
LulzSec have made news in the past after hacking the sites of PBS, an American news organization and also attacking AT&T, AOL, the U.S. Navy, NATO and the FBI.
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