By Suzanne Choney
LulzSec, the group of hackers that said three weeks ago it was disbanding, is claiming credit for tampering with Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper website.a
Late Monday, those who went to the Sun's site were redirected to a page with a fake story saying Murdoch's body had been found in his garden.a
"We have joy, we have fun, we have messed up Murdoch's Sun," the group said on its Twitter page.a
The media mogul is scheduled to appear before a parliamentary committee Tuesday to answer lawmakers' questions over phone hacking at News International, his British newspaper division. The scandal resulted in the closure of "News of the World" a little more than a week ago, and in the arrests of several individuals connected with the company, as well as a key police official.a
Most thought LulzSec was gone from the scene when it said last month it was stepping back to work with larger hacking group Anonymous in efforts to hack government and corporate websites the group deems corrupt.a
But in an eerie Twitter posting July 13, LulzSec indicated it was far from done. "The LulzBoat is on holiday across mysterious shores, but we have a lovely surprise for you in the future," the group said.a
Lulz — which is Internet speak for "laughs" and "Sec" — short for "security" — made its name known in May, starting with defacing the website of the Public Broadcasting System. LulzSec posted a phony story on the site claiming that dead rapper Tupac Shakur was actually alive in New Zealand.a
That hack followed PBS' airing of a "Frontline" documentary considered by LulzSec and Anonymous as being critical of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.a
Anonymous gained notoriety for its denial-of-service attacks on Visa and MasterCard late last year. Those attacks were retribution, Anonymous said, because the companies halted online donations during the WikiLeaks controversy, blocking contributions to Bradley Manning, the accused document leaker now in custody.a
— The Associated Press contributed to this report.a
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