PBS Website Reports Tupac is Alive

It has long been an extremely popular conspiracy theory that Tupac Shakur, an acclaimed rapper who was murdered in Las Vegas in 1996, was still alive living outside of the U.S. On Monday, several computer hackers tried to make this theory fact, by breaking into the website of the US public service broadcaster PBS and writing a story that said Shakur was living in New Zealand.

According to a recent article, the hacker group Lulz Boat, are those ones responsible for this false information and stated they hacked into this particular website due to the fact the network chose to show a documentary on PBS about Julian Assange and the whistleblowers' site WikiLeaks.

The PBS WikiLeaks documentary, entitled ‘WikiSecrets,’ caused the pro- WikiLeaks group of hackers to post a message on the PBS website that was displayed as the attack was taking place. The message read: "Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed.”

Just today, PBS commented that its NewsHour, Frontline and PBS websites still "remain under attack by hackers" and that the company is actively trying to fix the problem.

The article about Tupac that was republished was removed from the broadcaster's website fairly quickly, however login information for two internal PBS sites were stolen and published online. David Fanning, executive producer of PBS Frontline, said the attack as "irresponsible and chilling."

Fanny added, "From our point of view, we just see it as a disappointing and irresponsible act, especially since we have been very open to publishing criticism of the film … and the film included other points of view."