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 Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & CBS; these 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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Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked

Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & 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 Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before CBS. 

-Source (BBC & Reuters)

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Angelina Jolie & Lady Gaga Became Victim of Ongoing Celebrity Hacking

Angelina Jolie & Lady Gaga Became Victim of Ongoing Celebrity Hacking 

Now a days it has became a fascination for cyber criminals to target and hack celebrities and public figures. Earlier we have seen similar scenario many a time. Last month an unnamed hacker released personal details of many public figure, national leaders, celebrities. The hacked data dubbed "The Secret Files" by the hackers contains personal information and credit reports (including social security numbers, details of their mortgages, addresses, and details of their credit card and banking details) was made public by those hackers on a website. Now we have past just a couple of weeks, yet again the same massacre took place, the hackers returned to the Internet after a brief hiatus and immediately hit six more. 

Angelina Jolie who played a key role in one of the most fine hacking movie named "Hackers" herself became victim to hackers in real life, as well as Jolie; Lady Gaga, NRA advocate Wayne LaPierre, Dennis Rodman, Michael Vick, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson and Robert De Niro. 

Like earlier, this time also the nature of the hack was similar to the previous the hackers have posted what they claim to be the social security numbers, mortgage amounts, credit card info, car loans, banking and other info for the celebs listed on their site. Last time, the website; where the hacker have posted those hacked credentials; were shutdown by the authorities. But it's now back up and running with a new domain extension (.re) that suggests it's based out of the French island of Réunion located off the coast of Madagascar -said TMZ in an exclusive report. Again also the same style were followed by the hacker group and leaving the very same message saying - "If you believe that God makes miracles, you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve."

According to sources - Jolie's page (prepared by the hacker) includes what is said to be her social security number as well as her credit report, which can be downloaded. There are addresses listed as well, but they are all business addresses, likely for her lawyer and other people she employs. The same information for Lady Gaga and Johansson is also available. However, Johansson's page also features a photo of her which became public through a previous hacking incident. The FBI has already started investigation, but so far no arrest have been made. In 2011 another high profile hack taken place, where the hacker targeted several celebrities like Scarlett Johansson & few more; while leaking nude photos. Later FBI carried out a special operation named 'Hackerazzi' which put a full stop in that issue and also FBI arrested the master mind named Christopher Chaney was sentenced to imprisonment after pleading guilty. 

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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 Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery. 

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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 News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 

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DDoS Attack Send Twitter Offline, Lady Hacker Named 'Cosmo' From 'UGNazi' Took Responsibility

DDoS Attack Send Twitter Offline, Lady Hacker Named 'Cosmo' From 'UGNazi' Took Responsibility

One of the world famous and widely used social network Twitter again faced cyber attack. This time the site was unavailable for over 30 minutes in countries all over the world from Europe through to Asia. As expected the reason behind this outage is massive denial of service attack. According to the report of Telegraph an infamous hacker group named Underground Nazi also known as UG Nazi affiliated with hacktivist LulzSec, immediately, claimed responsibility for the downage attributing it to a prolonged DDoS attack. A lady hacker codenamed Cosmo, claimed taking down the site had been 'surprisingly simple'. "It wasn't really difficult at all, I myself honestly thought Twitter would be more protected from a DDoS Attack, but I guess not," she added. 

Meanwhile twitter completely denied the whole phenomena. A spokesman for Twitter said the issue was caused by 'a cascaded bug in one of our infrastructure components'. He declined to say whether it was a technical failure or a malicious attack.

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Edward Pearson Sent To Jail For Stealing 8Million Customers Banking & PayPal Details

Edward Pearson (23 Years Aged Hacker) Sent To Jail For Stealing 8Million Customers Banking & PayPal Details

A 23 years aged hacker from UK named Edward Pearson has been sent to prison to pilfer eight million personal identities (ID fraud). Between January 1 2010 and August 30 2011, he used of malicious computer programs to get his hands on - wait for it - eight MILLION personal identities. According to report he used highly sophisticated cyber-weapons such as Zeus and SpyEye, to hunt down personal details on the Internet. 

One of his programs scanned through 200,000 accounts registered to online payment service PayPal - identifying names, passwords and current balances. Luckily, Pearson got caught after only making a £2,400 ($3,800 USD). The authorities estimate he could have walked away with as much as £800,000 ($1.3M USD).  Authorities were alerted to the problem when his 21-year-old girlfriend, Cassandra Mennim, used stolen credit cards to book rooms at the upmarket Cedar Court Grand and Lady Anne Middleton Hotels. Investigators looking into the case eventually identified him as G-Zero on hacking forms. Pearson has been jailed for 26 months, whilst girlfriend Cassandra Mennim admitted two counts of obtaining services dishonestly and was given 12 months’ supervision.

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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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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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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.

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Lady Gaga’s Twitter Compromised, 17M Followers Promised To Get Free iPad 2s

It seems that popular pop star Lady Gaga has became a target of cyber criminals. Near about five months ago the official site of Lady Gaga was hacked also it has been reported that personal data of Lady Gaga's fan has been stolen by the hacker. After that now she is again facing cyber problem. This time the official twitter of Lady Gaga has been hacked. The singer, who boasts more than 17 million followers, posted a tweet earlier this morning offering up a free iPad2 to little monsters as Christmas presents. 

The hacked tweet read as follows: “Monsters, I’m giving away FREE iPad2′s to each one of you in the spirit of the holidays :) Go to http://bit.ly/s5MTqM to receive one!”

Warning:- Do not click the link included in the tweet, as it’s not valid and could cause damage to your computer.

And if you grab a calculator, like one of our savvy PopCrush staffers did, and do the math, if Gaga bought each of her followers an iPad2, it would cost her $8,538,981,313. Yes, over 8 billion bucks. On the flip side, there’s also no way Apple could stay in business by comping Gaga that many tablets, either. If Apple crumbles, our economy does, too.

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Lady Gaga’s website hacked & Fans' data Stolen By SwagSec (US Hacker)

Pop star Lady Gaga called in police after her website was hacked, resulting in the theft of thousands of names and email addresses.
Mirror.co.uk reports that Gaga's Britain website was hacked by US cyber attackers SwagSec, prompting her record label Universal to take urgent action.

"She's upset and hopes police get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen," said a source. The cyber attack happened on June 27 but those responsible didn't make the information public until this week.
The hackers, who also issued a death threat against the singer, bizarrely branded her homophobic.
"The hackers took a content database dump from www.ladygaga.co.uk and a section of email, first name and last name records were accessed. There were no passwords or financial information taken," said a spokesperson from Universal label.

"We take this very seriously and have put in place additional measures to protect personally identifiable information. All those affected have been advised," the source added.

SwagSec have also targeted other Universal artists recently including Amy Winehouse and Justin Bieber.

Read more at: http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?Section=Movies&ID=ENTEN20110180262&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&keyword=music&nid=119899&cp

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