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WASHINGTON – PBS officials say hackers hit cracked the network's website, posting a phony story claiming departed rapper Tupac Shakur was aware in New Zealand, and a assemble that claimed domain for the hacking complained most a past "Frontline" investigative programme aggregation on WikiLeaks.

PBS addicted weekday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been taken downbound as of weekday morning. It had been posted on the site of the "PBS NewsHour" program, which is produced by WETA-TV in Arlington, Va.

Anne Bentley, PBS' evilness president of corporate communications, said in an telecommunicate that incorrect aggregation posted on the website has been corrected. The hackers also posted login aggregation for digit interior PBS sites: digit that media use to admittance the PBS press shack and an interior subject website for stations, she said. She said every strained parties were existence notified.

David Fanning, chief shaper of "Frontline," said he learned of the hacking primeval Monday, nearly a hebdomad after the aggregation aired its "WikiSecrets" movie most the revealing of U.S. smooth cables to the WikiLeaks website. The documentary, produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, generated critique and speaking on the program's website in past life from those likable to WikiLeaks founder statesman Assange and from those who thought the aggregation was fair, Fanning said.

"Frontline" producers center impassioned responses every the time, Fanning said. Having a assemble move the PBS website over a programme aggregation was extraordinary but "probably not unexpected," he said.

"From our saucer of view, we just see it as a unsatisfactory and slaphappy act, especially since we hit been rattling open to publishing critique of the flick ... and the flick included other points of view," Fanning said. "This kind of action is slaphappy and chilling."

A sound from the "NewsHour" Twitter statement said: "If you uncomprehensible it: our site has been accessed by hackers. Thanks for staying with us."

A assemble occupation itself LulzSec and "The Lulz Boat" on Twitter claimed domain and posted course to other hacks, including a recording ostensibly taunting the network. Taunting messages were also posted on the group's Twitter tender targeting the PBS aggregation "Frontline." One communication said the assemble recently saw the "WikiSecrets" exhibit and was "less than impressed."

The timing of the hacking was provocative: Sun marked the one-year day of the detention of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who's accused of expiration thousands of categorised documents to WikiLeaks.

PBS ombudsman archangel Getler wrote most the "WikiSecrets" movie in his weekly column Thursday, locution it had generated exclusive a containerful of complaints, though he had expected more accumulation from viewers.

"This haw be a beatific abstract for Frontline if it suggests that most audience institute the aggregation to be in keeping with Frontline's reputation for clean still thickened reporting," Getler wrote.

Getler upraised some questions most the news in the aggregation but said he institute the asking by interviewer histrion adventurer to be "tough but proper."

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Online:

http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

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