For Teh Lulz of the Day: PBS.org was hacked over the weekend by Lulz Security, the “hacktivist group” responsible for the recent Sony Music Japan hack. LulzSec published a fake story on the news organization’s The Rundown blog, claiming that Tupac was alive and well in New Zealand. They also tweeted links to PBS logins and passwords, and offered to sell custom PBS blog domains.

LulzSec say they targeted PBS because they were upset about the recent Frontline special “WikiSecrets,” an hour-long documentary on WikiLeaks that founder Julian Assange decried as “trying to build an espionage case” against himself and suspected WikiLeaks source Pvt. Bradley Manning.

LulzSec claim they’re still in control of the PBS backend, taunting PBS admins and posting an additional fake article only four hours ago. The group is apparently not done with Sony yet, either: The LulzSec Twitter feed includes several mentions of #sownage (Sony + ownage) that seem to be scheduled for tomorrow.

Oh, and it wasn’t Anonymous who hacked Fox and stole contestant data from The X Factor. It was LulzSec.

[ thedailywhat / wired / nyt / mediaite / @lulzsec ]

( via justthatunappealing )