The PBS Web site briefly carried a fake story claiming that famed rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand after a group of hackers took over the organization’s computer systems on Saturday night.
In addition to posting the fake news story, the group, which identified itself on Twitter as @LulzSec or The Lulz Boat, the group began posting passwords and e-mail addresses of people from a wide range of news organizations and other information belonging to PBS. As late as 2:30 am on Monday, PBS had still not regained control of its Web site as the hackers continued to post defaced pages. Comments posted by LulzSec indicated that the group which identifies itself in its Web site profile “as a small team of 80-year-old men and people who smoke on webcam,” was unhappy with a program about WikiLeaks which recently aired on PBS. The group began posting messages on Twitter about midnight on Sunday: “What’s wrong with @PBS, how come all of its servers are rooted? How come their database is seized? Why are passwords cracked?” That message was following by a succession of follow-up posts which pointed to lists of passwords and other data.
I watched something similar once a while a ago with Comcast. A group hijacked Comcast and were able to take their domain. I watched the whole thing unfold as comcast was able to get their domain back then the hackers took it back it was very crazy to watch live. They went back and forth for hours. I am amazed that Comcast had such low security.
