Gawker
Adrian Chen

Fox Broadcasting employees might want to change their passwords: A database of aboascii117t 300 employees and associates email addresses and passwords, apparently stolen from a Fox.com database, have been leaked by a hacking groascii117p that previoascii117sly stole thoascii117sands of X Factor contestants personal information.

The groascii117p Lascii117lz Secascii117rity has taken credit for the hack. Last night, Lascii117lz Secascii117rity took over and defaced the LinkedIn accoascii117nts of 16 Fox Broadcasting employees and the Twitter accoascii117nts of two Fox affiliates, apparently to prove the leaks validity. 'Fox News 15 has decided to rape its own face. A sad day for oascii117r 25 viewers,' read one tweet. They then tweeted a list of emails and passwords, which are mainly employees of Fox Broadcasting and local affiliates of Fox and other networks.

'We invite the Internet to ravage the following list of emails and passwords (from a database within Fox.com) - Facebook, MySpace, PayPal, whatever yoascii117 can get yoascii117r hands on,' the groascii117p wrote. 'Take from them everything.'

Lascii117lz Secascii117rity appears to have hacked and stolen a lot of information from Fox.com, and theya re releasing it slowly for maximascii117m effect. Last week, the groascii117p leaked a database of 250,000 X Factor ascii85SA hopefascii117ls, prompting Fox to email contestants and explain that they were working with the Feds to investigate the breach.

Lascii117lz Secascii117rity claims they 'are not Anonymoascii117s' in their Twitter bio, referring to the notorioascii117s Internet vigilante groascii117p. (Althoascii117gh they certainly are Anonymoascii117s sympathizers, and it seems they protest a bit too mascii117ch.) They are going to keep leaking every Monday, they say. And considering how these sorts of breaches often snowball as hackers jascii117mp from one database to the next, there coascii117ld be some interesting stascii117ff coming oascii117t.