An unknown cybercriminals compromised the official facebook page of the Miguel Ángel Mancera, the Head of Government of the Mexican Federal District.
After hackers hijacked the page, the officials immediately suspended the facebook page to prevent misuse.
"Please note that the account of # Facebook's # JefeDeGob @manceramiguelmx has been hacked." reads the message posted in the @GobiernoDF. (translated)
"We have suspended the Facebook page to detect the causes of the inadequate functioning. Thanks for your understanding" The tweet posted by the @ManceraConecta .(translated)
After hackers hijacked the page, the officials immediately suspended the facebook page to prevent misuse.
"Please note that the account of # Facebook's # JefeDeGob @manceramiguelmx has been hacked." reads the message posted in the @GobiernoDF. (translated)
"We have suspended the Facebook page to detect the causes of the inadequate functioning. Thanks for your understanding" The tweet posted by the @ManceraConecta .(translated)
It seems like the Onion news organization will be the next victim of the Syrian Electronic Army's cyber attack on News organization.
Few minutes ago, the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) has provided a screenshot that shows they have gained accessed to the official twitter account.
Based on the screenshot provided by the hacker group, they have compromised the four onion's twitter accounts including@ theonion,@OnionSports, @onionpolitics, @onionstroe and @TheAVClub .
It seems like they have hacked the official facebook pages including The Onion and Online sports.
If i am not wrong, the SEA still have access to those twitter accounts because the tweets in the screenshot has been posted before 1 hour.
The screenshot tweeted by the hacker:
Few minutes ago, the Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) has provided a screenshot that shows they have gained accessed to the official twitter account.
Based on the screenshot provided by the hacker group, they have compromised the four onion's twitter accounts including
It seems like they have hacked the official facebook pages including The Onion and Online sports.
If i am not wrong, the SEA still have access to those twitter accounts because the tweets in the screenshot has been posted before 1 hour.
The screenshot tweeted by the hacker:
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell's official page was hacked. After hijacking the facebook page, the hacker started to post some of the pictures stolen from the email accounts of the Bush family by a hacker named "Guccifer".
"Kill the illuminati! Tomorrow’s world will be a world free of illuminati or will be no more!" The hacker said in one of the post.
After few hours, Powell managed to recover his facebook page and apologized for the offensive posts made by the hacker.
"Dear Friends, as most of you realize, my fb page has obviously been hacked. I'm sorry you have to see all the stupid, obscene posts that are popping up. Please ignore as we are working with fb to take care of this problem. I appreciate your patience." Powell posted after he recovered his facebook page.
"Dear Friends, I'm happy to report that the hacking problem has been fixed. We have been working with fb this morning and they took immediate action to remedy the situation."
Social Network giant Facebook has announced that its computer systems were targeted in a Sophisticated Java zero-day attack last month. Fortunately, Facebook figured out the existence of the malware before further damage was done.
According to Facebook security blog post, the attack occurred when a handful of employees visited a mobile developer website that was compromised.
They found no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised. Federal authorities are investigating this cyber attack.
Facebook says it was not alone and that several other companies were also attacked.
Recently, Twitter reported a cyber attack. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal newspapers have also said they were attacked and blame Chinese Hackers.
