Fake ‘Murdoch dead’ news story was placed on the Sun website after a hack by Lulz Security. Hackers injected a preformatted HTML file into an old internal server at News International. The Sun runs its website using Amazon Cloud services. The spoof story claimed Murdoch had taken palladium, a radioactive substance, before dying in his garden. Lulzsec also struck as Sean Hoare, the first reporter to expose hacking at the paper, was found dead. News International pulled down the main Times and Sun websites yesterday.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129050/lulzsec-hacks-sun-with–murdoch-dead–message.html