The Sun newspaper website hacked by Lulzsec, Times and News Int follows

The Sun website hacked by Lulzsec

In a rather delicious twist of irony, the website for The Sun newspaper has been hacked with all links currently redirecting to the The Lulz Boat Twitter feed.

The Sun website hacked by Lulzsec

Their Twitter feed is claiming that the hackers have also accessed internal memos of the Murdoch-owned newspaper, with Tweets commenting:

TheSun.co.uk now redirects to our twitter feed. Hello, everyone that wanted to visit The Sun! How is your day? Good? Good!

This is just as fun on the inside. We are battling with The Sun admins right now – I think they are losing. The boat has landed… >:]

For a while, the Sun’s home page was also hacked with a fake story about the death of Murdoch:

The Sun website hacked by Lulzsec

Update: 23:48 GMT 18th July:
The News International site is now also down.

The Sun website hacked by Lulzsec

Update: 00:15 GMT 19th July:
Another of the News International newspapers has been hit – this time it’s their flagship newspaper, The Times:

The Sun website hacked by Lulzsec

Update 01:55 19th July:
Sky News discuss the, err, “Louise Boat.”

More on the Lulz Boat Twitter feed

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