Hackers have broken into PBS' website and published a fake news article about rappers Tupac and Biggie being alive and living in New Zealand.
The attack was carried out by a group of hackers calling themselves LulzSec and it was done in retaliation for the network's recent WikiLeaks documentary.
On Sunday, the hackers posted thousands of usernames and passwords stolen from the PBS.org database on pastebin.com, including some administrative ones.
A rogue page with the group's logo and the message "
all your base are belong to LulzSec" was created under pbs.org/lulz.
The title of the rogue page, "
FREE BRADLEY MANNING. F*** FRONTLINE," gave an indication of the reasons behind the attack.
On May 24, an one-hour documentary about suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and the secrets-spilling organization aired on PBS Frontline.
The documentary, called WikiSecrets, was heavily criticized by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for misrepresenting his organization's views and intentions.
And just in case the title wasn't clear enough, LulzSec wrote on their Twitter account that
"we just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further perusing."
However, by far the most visible change made to the website was a fake news article on the PBS Newshour section called "
Tupac still alive in New Zealand."
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