IDF
twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army, spreads nuclear
leak alert
An official Israeli Defense Force twitter account issued a warning of a possible nuclear leak at the country’s research reactor on Thursday. The Tweet was soon deleted while officials reported a security breach and apologized.
RT,
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June, 2014
The
Syrian Electronic Army has apparently taken credit for the hack,
tweeting 'Long live Palestine!' via an IDF spokesperson's account.
8:37 AM - 4 Jul 2014 Guildford, United Kingdom
In
their own twitter account, the hackers said they hacked the “whole
‘Israeli army’ propaganda”, attaching a screenshot to prove
their claim.
The
security breach was quickly noticed and rogue tweets deleted by the
IDF, which confirmed that its account had been hacked and apologized
to their followers.
The
tweets were deleted within minutes, but not before dozens of people
had already retweeted the two hacked messages.
We apologize for the incorrect tweets Our twitter account was compromised. We will combat terror on all fronts including the cyber dimension
A
barrage of rockets pounded southern Israel on Thursday. More than ten
rockets and mortar shells hit the area in less than an hour, but none
came close to the Dimona Nuclear Facility in the Negev Desert,
according to Jerusalem Post.
Israel
and Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip have been trading strikes
ever since the bodies of 3 missing Israeli teens were found in West
Bank last week. Israel vowed to bring the perpetrators of the
suspected kidnapping and execution to justice, immediately bombarding
dozens of suspected Hamas militant sites and sparking a tit-for-tat
rocket campaign.
The
Twitter hacking comes just days after the Syrian Electronic Army
hacked the IDF’s official blog. On Sunday, the blog was showing a
defaced page, with a message written in Arabic. The IDF has not
commented on that hacki, according to Cyber News Alerts, who suspects
the attack was a spear phishing attack.
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