As of about 6:30 p.m. New York time, visitors to the Sun’s home page at thesun.co.uk were redirected to the Twitter feed for Lulz Security, or LulzSec, a hacking collective that said it had disbanded late last month. The rerouting has since stopped, and the Sun’s Web page was down after 9 p.m.

The British phone-hacking scandal has wiped billions in stock market value from Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and on Monday, the 80-year-old suffered another humiliation, –being declared prematurely dead by one of his own newspapers, after a hacker group targeted The Sun.