Anonymous hacks Murdoch's Sun

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http://yfrog.com/ke6yazzj


Getting up off the floor :rofl:

delete link

[October]

1. Sorry for my ignorance... question. I know Anonymous, but what is yfrog?

Thanks for any help!!!

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2. I don't have a clue

Here's what they did

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/18/anonymous-hackers-hack-the-sun-newspaper-to-declare-murdoch-dead-claim-stolen-emails/
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Anonymous Hackers Deface The Sun Newspaper To Declare Rupert Murdoch Dead, Claim Stolen Emails

The hacker collective Anonymous, it seems, plans to teach News Corp. a thing or two about hacking.

Just a day after the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of New Corp.’s British subsidiary and editor of its The Sun newspaper for phone hacking charges, Anonymous hackers took credit Monday for defacing the paper’s website to redirect to a fake homepage (archived here) that claimed its owner, News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch, had died of a drug overdose.

Worse may be ahead for the The Sun than mere graffiti: A hacker who goes by the handle Sabu claims that Anonymous has also accessed The Sun‘s and defunct sister paper News Of The World’s emails, and may release them in coming days. “Sun/News of the world OWNED,” he writes. “We’re sitting on their emails. Press release tomorrow.”

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3. Rupert Murdoch died of a drug overdose

ha ha ha! Dope? Think himself into suicide?
:nopity:

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6. That's the fake page

I don't want him to croak just yet

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7. "We're sitting on their emails. Press release tomorrow." OMFG!

I LOVE what these people are doing. As long as they stay on the side of the little people....I'm so good with what they do. :)

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8. YFROG is an image hosting service

Like Flickr or Imageshack.

[October]

9. OK, thank you!!! /nt

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4. Wired has it with a picture of what they did to the front page

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/murdoch/

They’re back. The hacker gang LulzSec, after declaring retirement last month, cracked the Rupert Murdoch-owned New Times on Monday and used it to host a fake news story declaring that the embattled media mogul had been found dead at his home.

The web defacement took the form of a mock article from Murdock’s The Sun, with the headline “Media moguls body discoverd” . The text goes on to claim falsely that Murdoch “ingested a large quantity of palladium before stumbling into his famous topiary garden late last night.”

“We have owned Sun/News of the World – that story is simply phase 1 – expect the lulz to flow in coming days,” the announced on its Twitter feed.

At the same time, some visitors were redirected from The Sun’s home page to the fake story, which appeared to have been blocked within an hour.

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5. See it here