PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website, posting a fake story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent Frontline investigative news program on WikiLeaks.
Anne Bentley, PBS' vice president of corporate communications, said in an email that erroneous information posted on the website has been corrected. The hackers also posted login information for two internal PBS sites: one that media use to access the PBS press room and an internal communications website for stations, she said. She said all affected parties were being notified.
PBS confirmed on Monday that the website had been hacked. The phoney story had been taken down as of Monday morning. It had been posted on the site of the PBS NewsHour program, which is produced by WETA-TV in Arlington, Virginia.
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