US Army Website Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 8, 2015 @04:27PM from the change-your-password dept.

swinferno writes: On Monday afternoon, the Syrian Electronic Army claimed on Twitter to have successfully hacked the website of the United States Army, army.mil. Various screenshots that appeared on Twitter reportedly showed pro-Assad propaganda on the site before it crashed. "Today an element of the Army.mil service provider's content was compromised. After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily," spokesman Brig. Gen. Malcom B. Frost said in a statement.

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Obligatory by darkain · 2015-06-08 16:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

https://xkcd.com/932/
1. Re:Obligatory by TubeSteak · 2015-06-08 18:33 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  It's about as significant as shitting through a recruiting office letterbox in a mall.
  Unless they dropped some malware on the site and infected the people who unknowingly visited the page.
  
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