PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 30, 2011 @11:43AM from the hacker-supported-news dept.

wiredmikey writes "Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS Web servers and were able publish a fake news story on a PBS news blog. The group also published PBS internal user login information that they were able to siphon out of PBS databases. The fake story was about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996 after being shot in Las Vegas, being been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand. A group going by the name of 'LulzSec' claimed responsibility for the hack, saying the attack was a protest against a PBS Frontline broadcast last week about WikiLeaks."

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Re:Once apon a time by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-30 11:48 · Score: 0, Funny

September 11th changed everything, man.
Re: Once upon a time by creat3d · 2011-05-30 11:50 · Score: 2, Funny

No shit... and if you're gonna deface a TV station, why not go after FOX instead of PBS?

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Re: Once upon a time by Cryacin · 2011-05-30 11:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Fox? They do a good enough job of defacing themselves.

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