Activist group plans to join with media to release e-mails hacked from Murdoch’s News International

The activist collective LulzSec announced it will join with as yet unnamed media outlets to release e-mails obtained through a cyber attack on News International, the Rupert Murdoch company. Murdoch is struggling to contain the phone-hacking scandal that threatens his empire.

Writing in The Register, John Leyden is unsure about who would cooperate with LulzSec, “Any mainstream media outlet that published the information may have some ethical qualms about dealing with the anarchic hacking collective, whose previous targets have most controversially included the Arizona Police Department and SOCA, the UK policing agency.” -db

From The Register,  July 21, 2011, by John Leyden.

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