Anonymous claims to have obtained trove of News Corp. emails

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

Online protest group "Anonymous" said Monday night it had obtained a large cache of emails from the servers of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary which oversees global media baron Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers.

Along with the emails, Anonymous said it had unearthed the email logins and passwords for News International executives, including former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, who was arrested recently in connection to the paper's phone hacking schemes.

A Twitter account connected with the hackers said they planned to release the emails online tomorrow. Also unearthed were phone numbers for News International officials, along with personal information about an online content editor.

News International, which hosts The Sun, responded by taking their mail servers offline. Hackers also took down the News International website, forcing it to redirect to a Twitter account for the hacking group LulzSec.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/19/anonymous-claims-to-have-obtained-trove-of-news-corp-emails/

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[cbdo2007]

2. haha!! Hackers getting hacked.

[jberryhill]

3. And now News Corp. can claim any incriminating evidence was planted by hackers

Good job, Lulzsec

[CleanGreenFuture]

4. Debunking before the fact? Really? News Corp is not exactly a credible entity now. Whatever

they "claim" is subject to some doubt.

[jberryhill]

6. In a criminal proseuction....

...having evidence messed around with by anonymous third parties is a problem.

I don't know what you mean by "debunking before the fact". There's a reason that police put up yellow tape at crime scenes.

[JackRiddler]

10. Actually, there are other reasons sometimes why police put up yellow tape at crime scenes.

Usually, it's to secure evidence.

However, given the surely only very rare corruption among the world's police forces, it can also be to hide evidence.

Since in the Murdoch phone-hacking case the neighboring London police hid evidence for at least five years, excuse me if I'm suspicious about the function of the "yellow tape" in this case.

Or wait, what was the phrase? "Unexplained but not suspicious"!

[JackRiddler]

7. And now the cops can act as though they would have ever investigated whatever comes out...

thanks to Anonymous.

Given the power of Murdoch and the involvement of the Cameron government and the top levels of the London police, I'll say it's likelier incriminating information comes out because of the hackers than would have ever been produced in investigations by the police - whose neighboring police division just took about an hour to declare the most on-its-face suspicious death of a whistleblower ever "unexplained, but not suspicious."

[CleanGreenFuture]

8. Sean Hoare's death is merely a coincidence, dontcha know?

[JackRiddler]

9. The responsible police authorities covered up the phone hacking scandal for five years.

The government is directly implicated and under threat of falling.

At the center is Murdoch, the most powerful media figure in the world, who probably has access to the means to threaten most everyone involved.

Right in the middle of a sequence of resignations and arrests due to the scandal, the whistleblower who broke it all open drops dead, in a manner "unexplained but not suspicious," according to the police division investigating his death. (Poor bastard, Rest In Peace Mr. Hoare.)

In the country that declared the David Kelley evidence untouchable for 75 years!

But now we're supposed to think the e-mail hack of Newscorp by Anonymous has ruined things, because why? This might release incriminating evidence that otherwise would have almost certainly been covered up, but supposedly: Can we know Anonymous hasn't tampered with it?

By the same logic: Let's send a telegram back in time to Daniel Ellsberg and tell him not to publish the Pentagon Papers, because people might think he had made them up. Because otherwise the Pentagon would have totally released that material in a fashion wherein we could confirm its authenticity!

The nice thing is that e-mails have both senders and recipients, as well as cc's and bcc's. Not to mention a dozen ISP stations in between. If Anonymous has hit a motherlode, it will be fun to watch the mass ass-covering rush on all sides!

(Thanks, CleanGreenFuture!)

[jberryhill]

11. And the Bush White House Emails went into the bitbucket

Yes, the police were involved in the coverup for five years. Given that the cat is out of the bag, and those arrested are going to start singing, to come flying in at this point in time and provide an obfuscatory wrinkle is unhelpful.

This story broke without Lulzsec's involvement.

[JackRiddler]

12. The report says the mail hack was by Anonymous, not Lulzsec. (Otherwise, readers pls. read Post #9).

jberry, thanks for bringing up an example of how it might backfire. Of course, it is not analogous, given that the Bush regime was never threatened to the point where the main rats were jumping ship, and given that the interest in those e-mails was much lower, but it's not impossible that you're occasionally right. (Do you believe those e-mails would have been voluntarily released, by the way? that's sweet.)

Readers, if you haven't, pls. go back to Post #9. Thanks!

[SidDithers]

5. Let the fun begin...nt

Sid