Fox.com Hacked By Group Lulz Security

A hacking group has broken into a Fox site and stolen the passwords for hundreds of Fox employees, as well as the Twitter account of a Fox television affiliate.

The group, called Lulz Security, then posted the Fox.com passwords online, and altered the LinkedIn accounts of several employees. (LinkedIn has since deleted the accounts.) LulzSec also linked to the altered accounts on Twitter.

Moreover, the group took over the Twitter account of Fox affiliate Fox15, and began posting tweets such as this one:

In a statement, Lulz Security wrote, "We invite the Internet to ravage the following list of emails and passwords (from a database within Fox.com) - Facebook, MySpace, PayPal, whatever you can get your hands on. Take from them everything. Remember to proxy up, or tunnel like a pro!"

The group also claimed to have exposed the personal information of contestants from "The X Factor."

Comments

[Frederick Suttors]

09:08 PM on 05/12/2011

bin laden lives 1 800 elvis

[SpuriusLartius]

02:31 PM on 05/12/2011

It seems like the Internet will never be 100-percent secure. Each day, we hear about more and more breaches. And what about the ones (breaches) that we never hear about. Scary!

[Ricardo01]

12:14 PM on 05/12/2011

Where was the ace Fox Security that O'Reilly is always talking about during this time?

[WarriorLemming]

03:39 AM on 05/12/2011

*snicker* ;)

[JessCostello]

12:21 AM on 05/12/2011

I wonder how many of those folks from LulzSec have links to liberal groups or have volunteered for Democratic party campaigns and candidates.

I notice that sites like the Gawker have wondered how they could steer hacker/cracker groups like Anonymous from 4chan into being a hip new attack dog for the left. It never quite worked out. 


We've seen astroturfing that mimicked a populist movement on the internet, I wonder if we're seeing the start of an astroturf hacker group?

[Briahlen Hand]

07:28 AM on 05/25/2011

Your trolling attempt = fail

[Marcanthony Peter Hosono]

12:09 AM on 05/12/2011

It seems as though many still misunderstand what a real hacker is or does. I suggest you all familiarize yourselves with the history of the hacker. To begin with, the media misuses the label hacker. A hacker, according to the media, is a criminal who steals peoples personal info. That is simply disinformation at its finest. Unfortunately, the media has succeeded in seeding this lie since almost everyone continues to misuse the term. Please go and learn yourselves some knowledge. Then again, ignorance is bliss. Kudos to Lulz Security.

[JessCostello]

12:21 AM on 05/12/2011

What do you call folks who launch denial of service attacks?

[Marcanthony Peter Hosono]

01:07 AM on 05/12/2011

It depends on the context. A man shoots another man. What do you call him? Depending on the context he could be a murderer, a soldier, or most likely, Dick Cheney.

[fedupinpa]

11:33 PM on 05/11/2011

Maybe instead of hacking they should have dressed as repairmen and tried to tap the phones in the office. Nobody's right when everybody's wrong.

[habenae23]

09:52 PM on 05/11/2011

This is actually rather troubling. I have a Fox account

[Talossa]

05:49 PM on 05/11/2011

Fox passwords like "ilovehitler" and "iamsecretelygay"?

[The ORF in Largo]

03:29 PM on 05/11/2011

What a treasure trove of totally useless information;that like stealing the playbook of a
cellar dweller which is what most of those who got hacked "cellar dwellers". That's like
losing all the numbers written on washroom walls.

[Oginikwe]

02:11 PM on 05/11/2011

Hilarious!

[EuropeWindAndFire]

02:04 PM on 05/11/2011

FOX hacked:
User: Dixie1, Password: CSA
User: Dixie2, Password: LEE
User: Dixie3, Password: WASP

[profitforless]

01:17 PM on 05/11/2011

I would be outraged - Outraged if this happened to a real News organization.

[freddychef]

12:45 PM on 05/11/2011

turns out it was all a wasted effort to the hackers.
all the accounts were tracked to a single person with mutliple accounts.

[Dhammi]

10:57 AM on 05/11/2011

They say (whoever they are) what goes round comes round. Would this not be parallel to Murdoch wire tapping? Personally I condone both of course as they are a clear invasion of privacy.

[JubalTHarshaw]

12:41 PM on 05/11/2011

Wouldn't that be "condemn?" What we do not condemn we condone...

[Dhammi]

12:47 PM on 05/11/2011

OMG - but of course condemn is the correct word! Thanks for providing my intended word.

Mea culpa - time for another espresso!

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