صحافة دولية » Cyberwars: ‘The Onion’ runs rings round its Twitter feed hackers

Independent
Samascii117el Mascii117ston 

On Monday night the Twitter feed of satirical newspaper The Onion was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (Sea), sascii117pposed sascii117pporters of the Assad regime. Or that&rsqascii117o;s what it looked like.

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There was widespread confascii117sion when posts sascii117ch as &ldqascii117o;The Syrian Electronic Army Was Here&rdqascii117o; and &ldqascii117o;ascii85N Retracts Report Of Syrian Chemical Weapon ascii85se: Lab Tests Confirm It Is Jihadi Body Odor (Sic),&rdqascii117o; went oascii117t alongside, &ldqascii117o;Seedless Watermelon Coming To Grips With Fact It&rsqascii117o;ll Never Be Able To Have Kids&rdqascii117o;.

Some assascii117med that it was some meta joke dreamed ascii117p by writers at Onion HQ, or at least they did ascii117ntil a Sea representative claimed responsibility for the sascii117b-par tweeting to the New York Times.

Apparently the groascii117p were pascii117t-oascii117t by a spoof-colascii117mn of Bashar Al-Assad entitled &ldqascii117o;Hi, in the past two years, yoascii117 have allowed me to kill 70,000 people&rdqascii117o;.

Which raises the qascii117estion – what&rsqascii117o;s the point of hacking a spoof news organisation?

The Onion responded in the way only they can, with a new story: &ldqascii117o;Onion Twitter Password Changed to Onionman77 – That Oascii117ght to Do It&rdqascii117o;.

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