Hackers attack PBS website, claim Tupac is still alive

Tupac Shakur is still alive and living in New Zealand. Thanks to some snarky hackers, that's what the PBS website was reporting last night. (And here I thought he was living on an island near Fiji all this time.) The group taking responsibility for the hacking calls themselves "The Lulz Boat." According to a statement released by the group, they took aim at the network because they were dissatisfied with a Frontline documentary special about WikiLeaks, which the Boat-sters claim "tries to build an 'espionage' case against [WikiLeaks] founder, Julian Assange, and also the young soldier, Bradley Manning." I'm still not sure what a rapper who's been dead for well over a decade has to do with any of this.

In less innocuous news, the Lulz Boat also published the login and password information for a bunch of PBS employees, including server administrators, reporters, and other staff members. There's pretty much nothing LOL-worthy about that. Though it probably shouldn't come as a surprise since they've pulled similar attacks on other media giants including Fox and Sony in the past.