The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition the website and several Twitter
accounts of The Financial Times of London were hacked Friday by the Syrian
Electronic Army in a continuing campaign that has targeted an
array of media outlets. A New York Times News Service inside The Globe quotes the Syrian Electronic Army as saying it seized control of several FT
Twitter accounts and amended a
number of the site's blog posts with the headline "Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army." Hackers
used their access to the FT's Twitter
feed to post messages, including
one that said, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here," and
another that linked to a YouTube
video of an execution. Both messages
were quickly removed. The FT confirmed that it had been hacked through its Twitter
feed, telling Twitter followers,
"Various FT blogs and social-media accounts have been compromised
by hackers and we are working to resolve the issue as
quickly as possible." The attack follows dozens of
others on the social-media accounts of The Guardian, the
BBC, NPR, Reuters and the Associated
Press. In the AP attack, the
group used its access to the agency's
Twitter feed to plant a false
story about explosions at the
White House.
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