Vice president for PBS corporate communications, Anne Bentley, has issued a statement regarding the late-night/early-morning attack on the company's servers and sites.

"Last night there was an intrusion to PBS' servers. The erroneous information on the PBS NewsHour site has been corrected. The intruders also posted login information to two internal sites - one that press use to access PBS PressRoom and an internal communications website for stations," she said.

"We're notifying stations and affected parties to advise them of the situation."

According to PBS, hackers did not compromise the personal information nor email addresses of its sites' users.

Of all places to have the scoop on the resurrection of famed rapper Tupac Shakur, we would not have expected PBS NewsHour to be the first on the scene with the news. That's partially because it's still a fake story.

A hacking group named LulzSec, or "The Lulz Boat," used an SQL injection attack to break into the servers for the Public Broadcasting Service last night. The group then posted a false story that Shakur was alive and well on PBS NewsHour's front page. According to the fake news article, Shakur has been resting in "a small resort in New Zealand" this whole time, alongside other famed '90s rapper Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace.

PBS seems to have resumed control of its network even though the story itself lived within the NewsHour's blog until around 7 a.m. or so today (EST). But fake news wasn't Lulzsec's only target. The group also posted up all of the MySQL root passwords for PBS servers, passwords for PBS affiliates around the country, passwords for all sorts of PBS press accounts, and a full network map of every PBS site and subdomain. In short, Lulzsec got the mother lode.

But why? It seems as if LulzSec took offense to the "WikiSecrets" show that recently aired on the PBS show Frontlinesessentially, a profile of suspected WikiLeaks mole and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Private First Class Bradley Manning.

"Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further... perusing. As you should know by now, not even that fancy-ass fortress from the third s----y Pirates of the Caribbean movie (first one was better!) can withhold our barrage of chaos and lulz. Anyway, unnecessary sequels aside... wait, actually: second and third Matrix movies sucked too! Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they're sailing next time," reads a statement by the group.

This isn't the first mass-media target that Lulzsec has gone after. The group also broke into servers owned by the Fox Broadcasting Network earlier this month, acquiring the emails and passwords of 363 employees of Fox or Fox affiliates.

Lulzsec had also managed to get its hands on access to the @FOXUPTV Twitter feed, as well as the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of around 73,000 people interested in auditioning for Fox's "The X-Factor" television show. This information was eventually uploaded to the Web via BitTorrent aggregate The Pirate Bay.

In this attack, however, Fox Newspresumably Lulzsec's intended target in some fashionremained unscathed. The same holds true for the PBS Frontline site and its Wikisecrets site: Both remained undamaged in Lulzsec's attack on PBS, even though they're clearly fuel for the group's cyber-attack.

The attack did manage to ruin at least one person's day, however: Teresa Gorman, the voice of PBS NewsHour throughout various social media platforms, took to the late-night airwaves to inform curious viewers that Shakur was, indeed, still dead. More importantly, that PBS had been hacked.

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