(CNN) — Online hackers have pirated the PBS website and posted a false story claiming the rapper Tupac Shakur

who has been dead for almost 15 years is alive and living in New Zealand. PBS acknowledged the hack early Monday morning.

Teresa Gorman, who works in social media and online engagement for the PBS program “NewsHour,”

published a stream of Twitter messages Monday morning in response to comments about the fake story.

“Thanks for your concern guys – we are aware there is more than the Tupac story being hacked right now,” she tweeted.

The Tupac story claims the rapper was “alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand,” citing “locals.”

It goes on to say a small town there unnamed due to security risks also housed the late rapper Biggie Smalls for years.

A slogan under a “LulzSec” banner online reads, “Laughing at your security since 2011!” Source: HipHopSpy

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