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Tango down! Chat app millions ransacked by pro-Assad hacktivists

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Dissent

John Leyden reports:

Hacktivists loyal to Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad claim to have extracted 1.5TB of sensitive data from chat app Tango.

[…]

eHackingnews, which broke the story, reported that Tango was hit thanks to a vulnerable WordPress installation, based on screenshots of the hack supplied by the SEA.

Tango confirmed it had suffered an intrusion via updates to its official Twitter feed on Saturday.

Read more on The Register.


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