Pro-Assad Hackers Take Over AFP’s Twitter with Syrian Propaganda Photos

Pro-Assad Hackers Take Over AFP’s Twitter with Syrian Propaganda Photos

After a couple of high-profile corporate hacks last week, a much nastier Twitter sabotage took place today on behalf of supporters of Bashar Al-Assad.

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/02/afp-twitter-hack/62539/

The @AFPphoto account is an odd choice for a hack, since the account has only been around for a few weeks and has just about 3,600 followers. (Perhaps that made it an easier target?) Yet, rather than posting rap videos or inappropriate jokes about hamburgers, this one decided to go with bloodly pro-Syria propaganda