Bangalore: The MIT website got hacked and defaced for an hour in the morning, auto-played Star Spangled Banner, stating "R.I.P Aaron Swartz” reports ZDnet.

The banner also contained the Aaron Swartz blog post texts from his website, specifically his post “immoral.”

MIT top technicians were flabbergasted about how the hackers gained access to its name servers.

The attack on the MIT site was claimed by LulzSec, it also included the name of the hacker-informant “Sabu” who helped FBI in nabbing LulzSec members, some of them were most known, in exchange for plea deal.

This attack on MIT’s website is a second time in less than one week. MIT is blamed for Reddit’s co-founder Aaron Swartz’s suicide that happened in New York City on Friday, Jan. 11.

Aaron was charged with thirteen counts of felony hacking after a July 2011 arrest for allegedly scraping 4 million MIT papers from the JSTOR online journal archive that however was recently made publicly available.

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