ThomsonReuters Twitter Feed Is Latest Victim of Syrian Hackers
The Twitter feed of ThomsonReuters, the global news and financial data company appears to be the latest media company to fall victim to a hijacking by the Syrian Electronic Army.
The Twitter account in question, @ThomsonReuters, has been suspended in the last several minutes. The attack appears to have taken place in the last hour. The attackers managed to Tweet links to at least seven images, mostly pro-Assad political cartoons. Buzzfeed has captured all of them here, but they’re not exactly funny, so click cautiously.
The Syrian Electronic Army has been relatively quiet in recent weeks. However it was very active earlier this year, carrying out attacks against the Twitter feeds of numerous media companies includingCBS and The Guardian in April, The Financial Times in May. It also attacked The Onion, prompting a predictable but funny response from that satirical news site, and later an equally awesome disclosure of technical details on how the attack was carried out.
