Obama’s got enough problems as it is. The last thing he needs is have to worry about his various accounts being hacked. But that’s exactly what he got today, courtesy of the Syrian Electronic Army:
We accessed many Obama campaign emails accounts to assess his terrorism capabilities. They are quite high #SEA pic.twitter.com/ARgGLX8IjN
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 28, 2013
We are watching you, Obama Bin Laden #SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy pic.twitter.com/N0M7cGIOwq
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 28, 2013
The SEA hacked into the @BarackObama Twitter account and into the Barack Obama Facebook page, where it posted links to a graphic video “showing the truth about Syria.”
Thank you Obama for redirecting people to the #SEA website http://t.co/y9o9y6uU5t #SyrianElectronicArmy
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 28, 2013
Thanks to our operation, Twitter now blocks Obama's dangerous propaganda links. #SEA pic.twitter.com/6V8g0j5jzL
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 28, 2013
Obama spent so much money ravaging #Syria with terror, he can't even pay his bills pic.twitter.com/dMEj8uFGGI
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) October 28, 2013
A boastful SEA retweeted these tweets about its exploits:
@BarackObama's Twitter and Facebook accounts have been hacked by Syrian Electronic Army @Official_SEA16 http://t.co/4yKphkbs2I
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) October 28, 2013
Syrian Electronic Army hacked Barack Obama's Website, email, twitter and Facebook Account http://t.co/vnZPZGJ4Ml @Official_SEA16
— Techworm (@Techworm_in) October 28, 2013
MashableEditor’s note: The original title of this post stated that the SEA had hacked into Team Obama’s social media accounts. But according to Mashable, “It appears the SEA did not actually access Obama’s social media accounts, but altered the links in the posts by tampering with the URL shortener service for BarackObama.com.” The title has been changed for clarification. We apologize for the error.
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