How The Onion Was Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

It was tough to severalize for certain ifThe Onion really had been hacked earlier this weekor if it was all just a joke — but now it’sexplained exactly howits Twitter account was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army .

https://gizmodo.com/well-it-looks-like-the-onions-twitter-feed-got-hacked-t-493158547

turn out onion plant employee were phished three shipway . First , they started get emails like the one above from May 3rd . unhappily , those Washington Post links were n’t quite the real deal . Instead , they linked to URLSwhich redirected to pages asking employees for Google Apps particular , and then redirected back to their email . At least one employee fell for it . Oops . With access to an email account , the Syrian Electronic Army then sent out more email across the office — now from a trusted reference — play the same conjuration . Two more fell for it .

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Then — after password changes were encouraged across the ship’s company — the cyber-terrorist used another account they ’d compromised to send out a phishing email which claimed to put up a word reset link . Two more employees fall for it — and one set of credentials provide the hacker to assume ascendency of The Onion ’s Twitter account .

Eventually , word were reset across each and every account within the company , but not before some fun was had on Twitter . The take home ? Phishing attacks are easy to fall for — peculiarly if you work at The Onion , seemingly — so stay alert . [ The Onion ]

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