LulzSec claims to have obtained trove of News Corp. emails

[kpete]

Online hacking group LulzSec said Monday night it had obtained a large cache of emails from the servers of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary which oversees global media baron Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers.

Along with the emails, LulzSec said it had unearthed the email logins and passwords for News International executives, including former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, who was arrested recently in connection to the paper's phone hacking schemes.

A Twitter account connected with the hackers said they planned to release the emails online tomorrow. Also unearthed were phone numbers for News International officials, along with personal information about an online content editor.

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[jberryhill]

1. Why are these things always announced before the release?

I can never understand the logic of "I'm going to release important stuff, uh, later"

Like the Wikileaks Bank of America files - whatever happened to them?