Syrian Electronic Army gains access to Obama's Twitter, campaign websites
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 10/28/2013 01:19 PM
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The Syrian Electronic Army claims to have hacked President Barack Obama’s various social media sites, redirecting them to a violent SEA video and displaying their now infamous "Hacked by the SEA" message.
Mashable received an exclusive email from the SEA, the group notified them of the hack, but would not provide details about how it accomplished the hacks. It appears the SEA did not actually access Obama's social media accounts, but rather altered the links in the posts by tampering with the URL shortener service for BarackObama.com.
"All the the links that Barack Obama account tweeted it and post it on Facebook was redirected to a video showing the truth about Syria," an SEA spokesperson wrote.
The president primarily used BarackObama.com during his presidential campaign's in 2008 and 2012. The screenshots below show the altered links from Obama's verified Twitter accounts.
Gizmodo says that while the Obama Twitter account hasn't gone wild (as with other attacks), there is at least one tweet that points to a graphically violent SEA video on YouTube.
The hackers have also managed to redirect part of Obama's website—OFA.BO/SEA—to the Syrian Electronic Army's website. The extent of the hack is, otherwise, unclear, as the SEA seems to be livetweeting its exploits.
Mashable received an exclusive email from the SEA, the group notified them of the hack, but would not provide details about how it accomplished the hacks. It appears the SEA did not actually access Obama's social media accounts, but rather altered the links in the posts by tampering with the URL shortener service for BarackObama.com."All the the links that Barack Obama account tweeted it and post it on Facebook was redirected to a video showing the truth about Syria," an SEA spokesperson wrote.
The president primarily used BarackObama.com during his presidential campaign's in 2008 and 2012. The screenshots below show the altered links from Obama's verified Twitter accounts.
Gizmodo says that while the Obama Twitter account hasn't gone wild (as with other attacks), there is at least one tweet that points to a graphically violent SEA video on YouTube.
The hackers have also managed to redirect part of Obama's website—OFA.BO/SEA—to the Syrian Electronic Army's website. The extent of the hack is, otherwise, unclear, as the SEA seems to be livetweeting its exploits.
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