So by now, regular readers will likely have already heard that the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked Forbes.com to express their displeasure with Forbes’ reporting on their activities, and what they perceive as Forbes’ antipathy towards Syria. The attack was announced through their Twitter account, with the hacktivists claiming to have acquired more than one…
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Microsoft No idea What to Do after breached by Syrian Electronic Army
Yesterday the @Official_SEA16 announced a breach on Xboxs twitter account and shortly after started posting from that account. Not to long after they have continued on the breach spree with an attack on the Microsoft official blogs website and twitter accounts. It also appears that now they have also got access to some of the email…
Confirmed Xbox Support Twitter Account Breached by Syrian Electronic Army (Updated)
UPDATED AT BOTTOM Today it appears the Syrian Electronic Army has come out for the weekend again with sights set on Microsoft. Just a short time ago they have announced a possible breach on Microsoft’s @xbox twitter account @xbox here and here. The proof they have given was posted publicly via twitter and is two android…
Skype Blog Breached By Syrian Electronic Army
Today the Syrian Electronic Army who started of 2014 with a bang with Skype. The incident appears to be isolated to a single bloggers account for Skype, Shana Pearlman aka @ShanaBP who is the content marketing manager at Skype (https://blogs.skype.com/author/shanabp/). Twitter user @Ihazcandy has pointed out a interesting fact that the tweets used to announce the…
Viber Media hacked by Syrian Electronic Army? It appears so… (UPDATE: Viber claims no hack)
It appears that Viber Media has been hacked by the SEA. The defacement on the site’s support page reads: Dear All Viber Users, The Israeli-based “Viber” is spying and tracking you We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking A screenshot, displayed on the support…
Syrian hacker extradited to the United States from Germany
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Ellen Nakashima reports: An alleged hacker with the Syrian Electronic Army, a group that supports the Syrian government, has been extradited to the United States from Germany on charges of conspiracy linked to a hacking-related extortion scheme, U.S. officials said Monday. Peter Romar, 36,…