News International warns names and addresses have been posted online may be linked by hackers, not to be understood LulzSec

News International has warned thousands of people via e-mail to you that one or several hackers entered personal data of thousands of people, the competitions and polls on the Sun 's website and sending them copies of the public Internet.

In an e-mail sent late Monday evening, the director of customer information for News International, Chris Duncan, says that in a hacker attack on the 19th July - when a fake story claimed that Rupert Murdoch was planted on the ground was dead - "Some customers were injured information from competitions and polls '. Among the details, names, addresses, birth date, e-mail and phone numbers. "No financial or password has been compromised," writes Duncan.

Samples from files in which Sun readers entered a Monarch quiz in 2009, as well as a list of Scottish students, the Miss Scotland contestants database, a Wrigleys football competition, an Xbox competition, referendum, royal wedding well-wishers, and a forum for bullied people have been posted on the Pastebin site, a popular site among hackers for posting public messages anonymously. Many include personal information including phone numbers and addresses.

Duncan says that News International is working closely with the police and the Information Commissioner 'to ensure that all steps be taken to retrieve the relevant files ".

The files are by a hacker who calls himself on Twitter Battey be freed. He claims not to any association or connection with the hacking group LulzSec, the responsibility for the hack on 19 NI July have claimed. Three Britons have to have been allegedly involved with LulzSec been arrested in the past six weeks.

In what looks like a manifesto of his motivations, Battey wrote on pastebin, that 'man makes mistakes. The human race is all the better for it. Humanity learns from them. Some people do not learn, however. Until these men are circumcised, natural selection, detention, or otherwise, then humanity will not develop. We will remain prey to the 'evil' kind of hacker, the credit card information or delete voicemail messages steals and slide the victims family to mourn their loved ones for longer.

"This is unacceptable... We will begin today be presenting to you, various files obtained from the Sun, a company within the News Corp group. We will continue, then, by exposing the world for what it is; a less than perfect place where we cannot trust those who we ask to protect our information."

It is not clear whether Battey is American or British.