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Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:25AM from the perhaps-they-need-a-guard dept.

judgecorp writes "The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked various Twitter accounts belonging to the Guardian newspaper. Guardian journalists report that the pro-Assad hacking group used a campaign of spear phishing to seize various of its feeds, following success hacking other media outlets including CBS."

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The Best by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-30 01:32 · Score: 3, Funny

The Syrian Electronic Army are the greatest hacking minds in the world! These guys are elite. It's like we're living in Neuromancer or something! Soon they'll be posting ASCII penises to mid-sized news outlets and the imperialist West will tremble.
1. Re:The Best by Ford+Prefect · 2013-04-30 02:55 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  User: GuardianLTD
  Password: 123password
  It's the Grauniad. It was more likely to be '123passwrod' [sic].
  
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Re:It's the Guardian by isorox · 2013-04-30 01:52 · Score: 4, Funny

No-one would notice the difference
The tweets were spelt correctly.