Updated: Hackers Hack The Hackers: LulzSec Takes Down News International

Then if you went to the homepage for The Sun , you were shown the Sun’s page for a moment, and then redirected to a Sun page that splashed on the news that Rupert Murdoch had died from a drug overdose, on a page for a site at the URL http://www.new-times.co.uk:

LulzSec also put in a pithy cartoon to illustrate their plan:

Now it looks like the IT folks at The Sun have picked up on the attack and have retaliated by blocking LulzSec’s page. When you try to go to the Sun, you now get an error 403, “Forbidden.”

We’ll update this as we learn more. But this is another example of how, even outside of the legal hot water now surrounding News International, the company is also getting a lot of heat from the public that may have an equally (if not more) damaging effect on the company.

Update : Looks like a cat and mouse game. Now the hacked site is redirecting to LulzSec’s Twitter page .

It also looks like News Corp might start getting the Sony ( NYSE: SNE ) treatment from LulzSec.