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USAToday Twitter Account Hacked By Script Kiddies


The Script Kiddies, which is the same group that recently hacked the NBC Twitter account, struck again Sunday evening. The hacker group, which hacked the @USAToday Twitter account late Sunday evening, used the account to send out spiteful messages daring Twitter to block them again. They also asked Twitter users to vote for what account they should hack next in the tweet below:
“Fox News, Wal-mart, Unilevel, Pfizer, NBC and now USA Today. who’s next? Vote Now!”
The Script Kiddies are the lesser-known splinter group of the famous Anonymous hacking group. On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Script Kiddies hacked the @NBCNews Twitter account and falsely tweeted that a plane had crashed into ground zero. In addition, in July, they hacked the @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account and falsely tweeted that President Obama had been assassinated. The FBI
In the past, The Script Kiddies have used a “keylogger Trojan” to access the official Twitter accounts of news organizations. The computer malware is unknowingly installed on the host’s computer and logs the entries a computer user makes and in turn allows the hacker to easily detect passwords. Early evidence points to a high likelihood that the group used the same tactic to gain access to the USA Today Twitter account.
USA Today has worked with Twitter to regain control of their account and recently tweeted:
 
“@usatoday was hacked and as a result false tweets were sent. We Worked with Twitter to correct it. The account is now back in our control.”



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Twitter Hacked, More Than 250,000 User Data Compromised

Twitter Hacked, More Than 250,000 User Data Compromised

The social networking giant and the world famous micro blogging site Twitter again fallen victim of cyber attack. Last year we have seen that the tight security system if twitter have been compromised many times. Yet again in this year the San Francisco based social media giant who have more than 500 million registered users failed to protect them selves from hackers. On last Friday Twitter acknowledged that it had become the latest victim in a number of cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. The micro blogging giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected. According to reports usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted passwords for 250,000 users might have been accessed in what it described as a “sophisticated attack” 

"This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” said Bob Lord, Twitter’s director of information security. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organisations have also been recently similarly attacked” Bob added. 

Jim Prosser, a Twitter spokesman, would not say how hackers infiltrated Twitter’s systems, but Twitter’s blog post said hackers had broken in through a well-publicized vulnerability in Oracle’s Java software. Last month, after a security researcher exposed a serious vulnerability in the software, though Oracle patched the security hole, but Homeland Security said the fix was not sufficient. The DHS issued a rare alert that warned users to disable Java on their computers. Prosser said Twitter was working with government and federal law enforcement to track down the source of the attacks. For now, he said the company had reset passwords for, and notified, every compromised user. The company encouraged users to practice good password hygiene, which typically means coming up with different passwords for different sites, and using long passwords that cannot be found in the dictionary.
Twitter said it “hashed” passwords — which involves mashing up users’ passwords with a mathematical algorithm — and “salted” those, meaning it appended random digits to the end of each hashed password to make it more difficult, but not impossible, for hackers to crack. Once cracked, passwords can be valuable on auction-like black market sites where a single password can fetch $20.

While talking about Twitter and cyber issues, I would like to remind you that in last year twitter faced several cyber attacks where more than 55,000 twitter account details was leaked, after this issue in the middle of last year the social networking giant faced massive denial of service which interrupted its services. Later a huge number of Twitter users across the globe received  emails warning that their account have been compromised and their passwords had been reset, and it was another security breach which affected twitter. Such big organization are not at all careless about security, so as twitter and it has been proved when they hired renowned white hat hacker Charlie Miller to boost up their security, but after this current massacre, it seems that twitter need to think more and emphasize a lot to make sure that their system is good enough to prevent cyber attacks. For all the hot cyber updates and reviews stay tuned with VOGH.




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American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. After John Cena, Justin BieberTeyana Taylor,American pop singer Keshanow it was time for popular  American actress, fashion designer, model and recording artist Lindsay Morgan Lohan. A fake tweet was posted to the 26-year-old star's feed on the social-media site, leaving all of Lohan's 4.5 million followers a bit confused. According to sources Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday with the tweet, 
“How does Hitler tie his shoes?” including a link to the answer on @oatmeal's blog. 
As soon as this tweet was spotted on the wild, immediate step has been taken from the side of Lindsay Lohan, and as expected that fake tweet has been deleted. So far the actress hasn’t expressed much concern for this slight security breach. 


But after regaining access on the twitter page Lindsay Lohan confirmed that her page indeed hacked while tweeting "my twitter was hacked, please ignore the last tweet."  as shown on the above picture. While talking  Lindsay Lohan twitter hacking, we also want to include the name of those celebrities  who have fallen victim to these nonstop #twithackery : NBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders Breivik’s twitterMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & many more. 











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Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter Account Compromised

Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter account Compromised 
World famous pop singer from Canada, Justin Drew Bieber also enlisted his name among those celebrities whose twitter account get hacked. The attacker has tweeted an unauthorized message in-front of the 19 Million of twitter follower. 
The hacker has tweeted the above message but fortunately that very tweet was immediately deleted. The hashtag "biebermyballs" sounds familiar, it should, same words were tweeted repeatedly from Carly Rae Jepsen's Twitter account after it was hacked several weeks ago. It is not clear if Bieber's account was hacked same person. The hacker responsible for Jepsen's hack was not identified yet. Few days ago another American pop singer "Kesha" twitter a/c get hacked. Same things happen to Teyana Taylor twitter which even caused exposure of few personal photo of this star among those there are few topless pictures.
Not only these two but also we have seen such attacks many times. Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking.



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Popular American Singer-Songwriter Kesha's Twitter Account Hacked

Popular American Singer-Songwriter Kesha's Twitter Account Hacked
Again another celebrity became the victim of twitter hacking. Popular American singer-songwriter stylized Ke$ha Twitter account allegedly hacked yesterday. The hacker immediately tweeted the latest song Ke$ha was about to release. Here is the controversial tweet:- "Single out in a couple hours. Ugh so f**kin stressful… wish I could stay on da (the) beach forever.”
The open tweet was seen by more than 3.1 Million follower of Ke$ha. After the singer spotted the false message, she realized her account had been compromised and quickly deleted it. She then posted this explanation:- "animals!! i love u! i got hacked. single is not out YET. promissse you’ll be the first to know!xx"
The twitter account of Ke$ha was verified, so it’s currently unclear if someone outside of Kesha’s inner circle actually managed to gain access to her account. It’s certainly possible that someone she knows and has entrusted her Twitter account password with decided to post the malicious tweet.
Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 




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Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

The scenario of hackers targeting another hacker has became a very common matter, in last two years we have seen many instances of the above matter where a hacker hit another hacker's site, community, blog, forums and so on. Today the story which I will about to discuss is the same matter where infamous hacker community named 'Anonymous' fallen victim. A newly formed hacker group calling them selves "Rustle League" targeted one of the officially recognized twitter account (@Anon_Central) belongs to hacktivist group which have more than 160,000 followers. According to security experts  "the reason Anonymous fell victim is probably human weakness." Or in other word many of twitter accounts get hacked due to choosing week passwords. "Chances are that they followed poor password practices, like using the same password in multiple places or choosing a password that was easy to crack. Everyone should learn better password security from incidents like this - if it can happen to an account run by Anonymous supporters, it could happen to you" said another expert of security firm Sophos. The hack on Anonymous twitter account placed Thursday morning and three hours later, those running the feed tweeted that they had gained back control of their account. 
While talking about attack on Twitter, we would like to remind you that, in this month a sophisticated cyber attack compromised the security system of the social networking giant twitter, where more than 250,000 twitter users have fallen victim. Though the hack of Anonymous twitter account does not resembles to the said matter, but the hack can be considered in the list of twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; where hackers gain temporary access of celebrity and famous twitter accounts. If you did the history we will find the following names, WWE champion John CenaStar Rita OraJustin BieberTeyana Taylor,American pop singer KeshaNBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders BreivikMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Postthese are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery





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Security Flaws Allowing Hackers to Brute Force Twitter Passwords

Security Flaws Allowing Hackers to Brute Force Twitter Passwords 

A security flaw has been discovered in popular micro blogging site 'Twitter' which is allowing an malicious attack to brute force user's passwords.  On Saturday, multimedia producer and Twitter user Daniel Dennis Jones (@blanket) received a notification that his Twitter password had been reset. This alone would have been cause for concern; at the very least, it would mean that someone had tried and failed to access his account. He quickly found out that the problem was much worse than he expected. He was eventually able to log back into the account, but found that his username had been changed to @FuckMyAssHoleLO , and that @blanket was now operated by someone else. His account, in other words, had clearly been hacked. After seeing the above scenario it is very clear that - Twitter's password reset process allows hackers to attempt a more wide-ranging brute force approach to breaking into accounts than other services with more restrictive systems. Both Apple and Amazon quickly closed the loopholes that led to Honan's hack, but Twitter accounts (the ultimate prize Honan's hackers were after) remain surprisingly vulnerable to unsophisticated hacking efforts. That vulnerability was on display this past weekend as a desirable group of "OG" Twitter handles the short, memorable, one-word names that got snapped up when the service launched were brute-force hacked by a group of kids looking to make a little cash and impress their friends.

Daniel Jones is not the only victim of this recently discovered vulnerability, many other people around the globe also fallen victim of this security hole. After a day of research, Jones "got to the bottom of a little ring of kids who crack passwords to gain access to handles" - he found a number of other short, memorable handles like @hah, @captain, and @craves had also been hacked. Judging from the conversations he saw over Twitter, these hackers were not sophisticated social engineers, but just a group of teenagers trying to sell the names they had collected. Eventually, Jones had a long Skype conversation with a 14-year-old hacker who goes by Mason he wasn't the one who stole @blanket from Jones, but he was part of the young crew grabbing and selling these desirable names.
Of course, Twitter's security regimen is probably not all that different from that of many other sites. According to Jeremiah Grossman, CTO and co-founder of Whitehat Security, the attack that victimized Jones was "very, very common....Perhaps Twitter could have a bit stronger and more comprehensive approach to dealing with brute force attacks, but they can really only take it so far before annoying their users." 
We personally think that, after this case twitter should implement two step authentication, like Google to prevent its user getting compromised


-Source (Buzz Feed & CNET)






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Teyana Taylor Twitter Account Hacked & Nude Photo Leaked

Teyana Taylor Twitter Account Hacked & Nude Photo Leaked 
Yet again another celebrity became the victim of twitter account hacking. This time "Christmas in Harlem" singer Teyana Taylor became the target of the hacker. Not only her twitter account get hacked but also the hacker leaked few personal photo of this star among those there are few topless pictures all those hacked photos are posted on her Yfrog a/c. Though it is not yet confirmed that those photos really belongs to Taylor or not because leaked photos do not showing the face of the victim. What ever you can still see the picture. Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. In 2011 another celebrity named Scarlett Johansson became the victim of such nude photo leaks. In her case her mobile phone get hacked which leaks few controversial photos of the star.





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Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked

Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army [#twithackery]

Yet again CBS one of the major commercial broadcasting television network of United States faced cyber attack. First it was hacker collective Anonymous who targeted CBS and managed to hack the TV network of CBS in January last year. The attack was done under the banner of Operation Megaupload. And now CBS have fallen victim of what it called twithackery, where hacker managed to gain temporary access of popular twitter accounts and broadcast fake tweets. This Sunday such twithackery targeted and compromised several twitter account of CBS. Infamous hacker community going by the name of Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have hijacked the twitter accounts of CBS, the list of the hijacked accounts include "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours" which is maintained by CBS news program. Later it has been reported that another twitter account @CBSDenver has also been hacked, during this ongoing cyber attack. CBS acknowledged the whole phenomena and later a CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. "PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve." - said the CBS spokesman. Another message from CBS said, "A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60Minutes or its staff."

Here is the list of those fake tweets came from the hijacked accounts of CBS:- 
From @60Minutes account we got the following message -
  • "The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
  • "The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
  • "Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
  • "Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast" 

Other messages claimed: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @SyrianCyberArmy" and suggested the action was in response to the suspension of the @Official_SEA account. Tweets sent out on the @48Hours account reportedly included: "General Dempsey calls for #Obama's arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours" As soon as the issue get spotted, CBS regain those hijacked accounts and immediately deleted those rouge messages. Later the two accounts @60Minutes and @48Hours has been suspended. 
While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John CenaStar Rita OraJustin BieberTeyana Taylor,American pop singer KeshaNBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders BreivikMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Postthese are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before CBS. 



-Source (BBC & Reuters)





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British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

Yet again another celebrity have fallen victim of twitter hacking. After Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor, American pop singer Kesha; now it was time for British pop star Rita Ora. The hacker have broken into the pop star's account and posted a fake tweet saying "I wanna be with Harry Styles"
Rita Ora has immediatley apologized to fans after a prankster hacked her Twitter account and posted that she has a crush on One Direction singer Harry Styles. The 21-year-old pop singer got to know about the news Saturday when she discovered a tweet on her page. She quickly deleted the message and told her 1.1 million followers she had contacted bosses at the social networking site about temporarily closing her account while resolving the problem. She writes, "My Twitter has been hacked! Trying to get it frozen for a bit!! Sorry guys!!"
Similar things happened earlier when NBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders BreivikMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 






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Mysterious tweet with lewd photo, Weiner says he was hacked




Rep. Anthony Weiner has signaled that his Twitter feed was recently hacked, after a sexually suggestive picture was sent from his account to a female follower. Dave Arnold, a spokesman for Weiner, indicated in a statement to The Hill that the New York Democrat’s Facebook and Twitter feed had “obviously” been hacked. He also signaled that the congressman had not decided whether to report what happened to authorities. A hacker convicted of illegally accessing an email account of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin received a yearlong prison sentence. “This is intended to be a distraction, and we’re not going to let it become one. Anthony’s accounts were obviously hacked,” Arnold said. “He doesn’t know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next.” The picture, which seems to show the lower half of a man wearing tight gray underwear, was reportedly sent late Friday night. It is not currently on Weiner’s Twitter feed. The incident was first reported by Big Government -- one of the sites owned by Andrew Breitbart, the conservative web entrepreneur -- and has since attracted lots of attention on like-minded websites. For his part, Weiner himself, a prolific tweeter, joked about the situation not long after it happened -- on Twitter, naturally. “Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next? #TheToasterIsVeryLoyal,” Weiner tweeted on Saturday, after earlier discussing his inability to watch a hockey game. “Touche Prof Moriarity. More Weiner Jokes for all my guests! #Hacked!,” the media-friendly Democrat later added. As for the recipient of the photo, reports have identified her as a Seattle-area journalism student who followed Weiner on Twitter. Her feed, shown online in some screen captures showing the tweet that reportedly contained the picture, is no longer active. Arnold had earlier told the New York Post that the congressman had been told recently that his Facebook account might be compromised, but ignored it. Conservative outlets, meanwhile, have been unconvinced by Weiner’s hacking assertions, noting, for instance, that the congressman had mentioned Seattle in an earlier tweet about a television appearance.

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Kian Egan: Twitter Account Hacked – Not Leaving Westlife

Kian Egan: Twitter Account Hacked – Not Leaving Westlife
Twitter has quickly become one of the largest of the social networks that there are in the world and with that being the case it’s always susceptible wrong doing much the same as other social networks such as Facebook. You only have to look at whenCharlie Sheen joined Twitter; he received 800,000 followers at an amazing rate.
Some of the accounts that we have seen compromised in recent times include Ashton Kutcher and also Lil Wayne who was forced to delete his account following hacking. Today we wanted to tell you about a new victim, his name is Kian Egan. His Twitter account has been hacked and he has told fans that he isn’t leaving Westlife.
Westlife is one of the most successful bands that I have seen; they were put together by Louis Walsh who continues to manage them. Kian Egan’s account was hacked and his 70,000 followers were informed that he was leaving the band. His tweet reads “Got a very sad announcement everyone, I am leaving Westlife to concentrate on managing Wonderland. I haven’t taken this decision lightly… The boys are going to continue as a Three Piece… I am leaving.”
Because the tweet came from his Twitter page which as independent.ie say but othermembers tried to calm things down by revealing that Kian wasn’t leaving and that his profile had indeed been hacked.

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Huffington Post Official Twitter Account Hacked


Yet another high profile and verified twitter account get compromised. This time the victim is famous news portal Huffington Post. The hacker twitted "cloverfdch is a Fucking god! Hacked :)" & "New York Postrules!!!"  from the Huffington Post official twitter account.
Huffington Post representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment this morning but were apparently aware of the intrusion; the posts in question were quickly deleted from the site's Twitter page, although they still appear on subscribers' third-party Twitter clients.
Later Huffington Post  tweeted "Sorry about that, Twitterverse! We know we've been hacked and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,"
If you dig the decent past then you will find that hijacking twitter accounts has became a common phenomena. Earlier NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt twitter account became victim.


-Source (CNet)



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Twitter Account of NBC News Hacked



Hackers compromised the NBC News Twitter account today and sent several fake tweets from the account about an attack on Ground Zero reminiscent of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
"Breaking News! Ground Zero has just been attacked. Flight 5736 has crashed into the site, suspected hijacking. More as the story develops," was the first tweet this afternoon. It was followed by two others, including one that started "This is not a joke."
The fourth tweet said "NBCNEWS hacked by The Script Kiddies."


An e-mailed NBC News statement said: "The NBC News twitter account was hacked late this afternoon and as a result, false reports of a plane attack on ground zero were sent to @NBCNews followers. We are working with Twitter to correct the situation and sincerely apologize for the scare that could have been caused by such a reckless and irresponsible act."
NBC News also used the Twitter account of its chief digital officer, Vivian Schiller, to alert followers to the problem. "Ignore tweets from @nbcnews till further notice. We've been hacked. Do not retweet," her account tweeted shortly early on. A search for the NBC News Twitter profile shortly thereafter displayed the message "This user does not exist."
It's unclear who the Script Kiddies are. The profile for the Script Kiddies--a term used to describe novice hackers--also appeared to have been removed from Twitter.

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[Neud.org] the Porn Network, also their Twitter Hacked BY N!1L, Bangladesh Cyber Army

 
Neud.org the porn network, also their official Twitter Hacked BY  N!1L, Bangladesh Cyber Army  

Hacked Site:-
 
 

Official Twitter:- 

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Mahesh Bhatt's Twitter Account Hacked


Famous Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt's twitter account get compromised. On the 29th of November an abusive comment was tweeted from Bhatt's account. Celebrities like Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone and KRK has been abused with slang on that particular tweet. 
"@ghantaasingh @kamaalrkhan @SunnyLeone @iPoonampandey #AapChutiyeHain,"

Later Bhatt tweeted that  "Someone has hacked my account and used it to abuse Kamal Khan and few others. This is dangerous."

A flabbergasted Kamaal Khan couldn't believe his eyes as he read the message addressed to him from none other than Mahesh Bhatt.  On reading the abusive message, Kamaal immediately wrote back to Mahesh Bhatt asking, "bhai jaan I shall appreciate if you can clarify whether you are calling me chutiye?" 
Later Poonam Pandey, who was abused on that tweet said that 

"i Guess this Words cant be of @MaheshNBhatt as he is a gem of person and a gentleman! #HACKED," reacted Poonam Pandey on her twitter page. 
Poonam Pandey's hunch was true as Mahesh Bhatt posted after a few hours, "Someone has hacked my account and used it to abuse Kamal Khan and few others. This is dangerous."
Now a days hacking into celebrities twitter account became a common phenomena. Earlier lots of high profile twitter a/c get compromised among them Fox News, NBC News, USA Today, Sky News and many more. Earlier in this year the mail a/c of Bollywood actor and director Arbazz Khan was also hacked and now Mahesh Bhatt also became the victim. It seems that Bollywood celebrities are on the hot-list of cyber criminals. 




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WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a very natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. This time the victim is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion and renowned actor John Cena. This week more than 2.8 million fans of American professional wrestler John Cena was shocked after seeing irrelevant tweets coming from John Cena's official twitter account. Immediately after it get noticed, the twitter page was restored and those false tweets was deleted. Later a tweet came from John Cena's official twitter page while saying "Sorry guys, guess some attachments got sent out thru my account. Im been a victim of #twithackery" 

Similar things happened earlier when British pop Star Rita Ora, Justin BieberTeyana Taylor,American pop singer KeshaNBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders BreivikMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 




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E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery)

E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery) Fake Tweet Claimed Justin Bieber is Gay

The massive ongoing twitter hijacking also known as twithackery carried by carried by the infamous pro-Assad group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army targeted another high profile twitter account. After the successful hijack of three high profile twitter account of CBS news followed by the hack of BBC and the Associated Press twitter account, now Syrian Electronic Army aka SEA have caught another big fish  that is E! Online -one of the leading resource of entertainment and celebrity gossip news. The official twitter account of E!Online that has over five million followers fallen victim to these dangerous hacker collective group. As per several legitimate sources this high valued twitter account was hacked on Saturday afternoon and subsequently posted several false tweets about a few celebrities, most specifically Justin Bieber. After the successful hijack, exactly like earlier the hacker group started tweeting false message. Among those One tweet read, “Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!Online: I’m a gay,” followed by a shortlink.  Another read, “Exclusive: Selena Gomez tells E! she will fully supporting Justin in his coming out” [sic], also followed by a shortlink.  (Selena Gomez was Bieber’s girlfriend up until recently).  And another made reference to Angelina Jolie blaming Jordan for “the Syrian refugees’ atrocious conditions.” Here is screen capture of those fake tweets:- 

After this mishap security experts have figured out that many of those links associated with the above fake tweets redirecting users to malicious webpages. So users were urged not to click on the links. Not only the official twitter account, but also the hacking group also managed to infiltrate the E!’s text messaging system, sending hundreds of thousands of subscribers similar messages including an obscene message relating to President Barack Obama

While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John CenaStar Rita OraJustin BieberTeyana Taylor,American pop singer KeshaNBC NewsFox News PoliticsUSAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter AccountAnders BreivikMahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & CBSthese are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before E!Online. In the wake of all the recent cyberattacks on news organizations, Twitter has warned media accounts that they will continue to be targets of hackers, and has advised them to take all appropriate steps to further secure their Twitter accounts. 




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