The Syrian Electronic Army has struck again. This time, in addition to all of the Financial Times ' Twitter accounts , they have also gained access to their website, which is currently down. Although the hacktivists are accustomed to hacking social media accounts, this time they have also hit the FT's official website.
This could mean a lot. One scenario is that all accounts use the same or similar passwords. The way the group achieves its attacks is by fishing for security codes using phishing methods.
Now the question is (if the scenario holds true, of course) how does a company like the FT use similar passwords on all its online accounts? And there were quite a few..
All Twitter accounts appear to have been recovered. However, a short while ago they all posted the following comment from the Syrian Electronic Army:
[quote]"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @Official_SEA12 #SEA | https://on.ft.com/10VeNhY[/quote]
The accounts that were hacked according to ehackingnews were the following:
FTLiveTweets
FTTradingRoom
ftphotodiary
ftdavos
FTMarkets
FTAerospace
Ftindianews
