In addition to being physically and verbally attacked Tuesday in Parliament, the news magnate Rupert Murdoch is facing a fresh online assault.
“Sabu” — apparently a member of hacking consortium Lulz Security — has said that sometime on Tuesday the group will post a database of e-mails that they have acquired from News International, the British arm of Murdoch’s News Corp. empire.
There weren’t that many other details forthcoming, but Sabu has already posted former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks’ e-mail account and login information online. Other hackers have posted the phone numbers of a couple of News International staffers on Twitter.
Lulz Sec members also say they were the ones who hacked the Sun’s and the Times’ web sites late Monday, posting a fake Sun story on Murdoch keeling over in his garden after a drug overdose.
The group has in the past few months fiddled with the U.S. Senate’s public web site, and broken into the databases of several companies, posting the details of thousands of people’s personal information online.
