UPDATE: By April 20, 2013, 10:58 pm EST, Twitter had suspended the account.
Earlier today the official Twitter profile of “60 Minutes” was hacked. Soon after, the “60 Minutes” profile tweeted the following:
PLEASE NOTE:Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve.
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 20, 2013
PLEASE NOTE: A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60minutes or its staff.
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 20, 2013
However, the hacked tweets began to show up again tonight, as these screen grab from April 21, 2013, 10:35-10:47 PM EST show:
The latest series tweets includes references to @SyrianCyberArmy and as well as #SEA, known and the Syrian Electronic Army:
Hacked? rt @60minutes Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @syriancyberarmy #SEA #Syria
— Pat Parkinson (@patrparkinson) April 21, 2013
The Syrian govt. has a big army of cyber hackers. Whenever you tweet something about Syria, you get followed by a bunch of bots. Not sure what they really accomplish this, but it’s creepy.
@DignityPeace Very.
@DignityPeace Very.
[…] is not a good week for major media outlets on Twitter. On Saturday night, the Twitter profile of 60 Minutes was hacked, and today the Associated Press’ account was compromised, and as of this posting @AP is still […]
While professing to be ‘http://raksasapoker.com/app/img/peraturan.html profoundly disturbed’ by the aggression of anti-Semitic Germany, Roosevelt continued his special http://raksasapoker.com/app/img/jadwal.html friendship for Soviet Russia http://raksasapoker.com/app/img/promo.html after its attacks upon Outer Mongolia, Poland, Latvia, Esthonia, Lithuania and Finland. Professing an adoration for ‘http://raksasapoker.com/app/img/panduan.html democracy’ he refused, as the Jews control 90 percent of the scrap iron business, to invoke the Neutrality Act against http://cintaberita.com Japan in its http://raksasapoker.com/war on China, or against Russia when, with Germany, she invaded Poland and attacked Finland. He extended a warm welcome to the Communist Ambassador Oumansky when he presented his credentials and, on the same day, displayed marked coldness toward the newly appointed Ambassador from Christian Spain