By 3news.co.nz staff
LulzSec, the anonymous hackers which posted a fake news story about Tupac Shakur being alive and well in New Zealand on a US website, says it is turning its attentions towards Sony.
In a message posted on the group's Twitter page, LulzSec writes: "Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed? Slow and steady, guys."
Sony has yet to respond to the claims.
LulzSec, or 'The Lulz Boat', another name they use, is calling the operation 'Sownage', which is short for 'Sony Ownage'. It is not apparent yet what they're doing, if anything.
Late in May, the group tweeted: "Working on another Sony operation...this is the beginning of the end for Sony."
They say they had nothing to do with the attack on Sony's PlayStation network last month, and their plans have nothing to do with Sony's gaming division.
"You Sony morons realise we've never attacked any of your precious gaming, right?" LulzSec tweeted. "Do you know Sony does this thing called 'music' too?
"Keep on crying, Sony fanboys. Your tears create the sea and your whining creates the wind that we so gracefully use to traverse onward."
LulzSec says it posted the fake Tupac story on the PBS network's website after the channel screened a documentary on WikiLeaks on the weekend, which LulzSec says "painted a negative picture of WikiLeaks".
"While our main goal is to spread entertainment, we do greatly wish that Bradley Manning hears about this, and at least smiles," one of the hackers told Forbes magazine.
Sony has blamed another online collective, Anonymous, for the PlayStation Network hack, a charge Anonymous has denied.
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