Friday 22 March 2013

Syrian Electronic Army hacked 3 BBC Twitter accounts

 
Syrian Hacktivists known as "Syrian Electronic Army" has taken control of the three official Twitter accounts belong to BBC. The hackers hijacked the BBC Arabic Online(@BBCArabicOnline),  BBC Weather account(@BBCWeather) and BBC Radio Ulster account (@bbcradioulster). After hijacking the BBCArabicOnline , the hacktivists tweeted "Syrian Electronic Army was here via @Official_SEA #SEA". "And that came in response to what BBC practiced of lies and fabrication of news  and in addition to the bias to the bloody opposition" Hackers stated the reason for this cyber attack. Speaking to EHN, the hacker provided the email id, password of email id and passwords of Twitter accounts.  At the time of writing, the BBC recovered their accounts back.

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