Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks WSJ Twitter Accounts
The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked a total of four Twitter accounts of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and has posted a message claiming that Ira Winker is a cockroach.
The Syrian hacktivists hijacked the WSJ Africa (@wsjafrica), the WSJ Europe (@wsjeurope), the WSJ Vintage (@vsjvintage), and the WSJ.D (@wsjd) Twitter accounts, Poynter reported. They posted the message “@Irawinkler is a cockroach,” along with a picture of Ira Winkler’s head on the body of a cockroach.
WSJ quickly became aware of the incident and removed the tweets. “We have secured our compromised Twitter accounts and they are now functioning normally,” the media giant noted on Twitter a few hours ago.
