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News International pulled down the main Times and Sun websites yesterday after a fake ‘Murdoch dead’ news story was been placed on the Sun website after a hack by Lulz Security.

Websites owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International were down early Tuesday after the Lulz Security hacker group replaced The Sun’s online version with a fake story pronouncing the mogul’s death.

A group of computer hackers calling themselves Lulz Security tamper with the website of News International-owned the Sun’s website.

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.

Lulz Security hacker group has attacked the website of the Rupert Murdoch owned Sun newspaper, replacing the online version with a fake story pronouncing the mogul’s death.

LULZ Security hacker group has attacked the website of the Rupert Murdoch owned Sun newspaper, replacing the online version with a fake story pronouncing the mogul’s death.

Lulz Security hacker group on Monday attacked the website of the Rupert Murdoch owned Sun newspaper, replacing the online version with a fake story pronouncing the mogul’s death.

# exclusive The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but law enforcement’s hunt for its members will go on .

Lulz Security, the hacker activist group claiming credit for breaking into websites at Sony Corp., the U.S. Senate and the Central Intelligence Agency, said it’s ending a wave of cyber attacks that began almost two months ago.

Lulz Security, a powerful hacker group that has blazed a path of destruction on the internet over the past two months, has announced it is dissolving as a unit.