Telegraph’s Twitter Account Hacked; Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Strikes Again

Telegraph’s Twitter Account Hacked; Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Strikes Again
Jack Phillips
5/20/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

The Daily Telegraph’s Twitter feed was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, the pro-government group said.

Two tweets on Monday afternoon read: “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA12 #SEA,” before linking to the website sea.sy.

One of the tweets was then taken down and replaced with another one, which reads: “The Syrian Arab Army discovers a Zionist vehicle in Qusayr,exposing the Israeli regime in the proxy war against Syria.” 

The apparent security breach follows several other high-profile hacks by the Syrian Electronic Army.

Twitter accounts belonging to The Associated Press, the Financial Times, and other media agencies were compromised by the group. Even satirical news website The Onion was hacked, triggering a series of articles from the website, including one with the headline saying “Syrian Electronic Army Has A Little Fun Before Inevitable Upcoming Deaths At Hands Of Rebels.”

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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