Gizmodo Twitter Account Hacked by Clan VV3

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Clan VV3, a group of hackers who are expert in “jacking” Twitter and YouTube accounts, has managed to take over the profile of tech news website Gizmodo.<br /><br />Apparently, it all started when the hackers compromised the iCloud account of Mat Honan, a former Gizmodo employee. According to Honan, that allowed them to take over his Google and Twitter accounts.<br /><br />Since his Twitter account had been linked at some point to the one of Gizmodo, the members of Clan VV3 were able to gain access to that one as well and started publishing their own tweets.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-QvlcyWXLlweuV6gq_nC8iu_TeeeosPU4sdeemHSxipFKRt9lLaAmkw1vq2peUdm-FY9g8vlES6AobAyj4LvRGTWw7LKkXOrEMGc-ferVR26ZpDKDMC9SVk8-CdW2jSkiJy7n5DrBq4B/s1600/Gizmodo-Twitter-Account-Hacked-by-Clan-VV3-Video-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-QvlcyWXLlweuV6gq_nC8iu_TeeeosPU4sdeemHSxipFKRt9lLaAmkw1vq2peUdm-FY9g8vlES6AobAyj4LvRGTWw7LKkXOrEMGc-ferVR26ZpDKDMC9SVk8-CdW2jSkiJy7n5DrBq4B/s320/Gizmodo-Twitter-Account-Hacked-by-Clan-VV3-Video-2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Unfortunately for Honan, the hackers also wiped the data from his iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air, most of it being lost, probably for good.<br /><br />“I still can’t get into Gmail. My phone and iPads are down (but are restoring). Apple tells me that the remote wipe is likely irrecoverable without serious forensics. Because I’m a jerk who doesn’t back up data, I’ve lost at more than a year’s worth of photos, emails, documents, and more. And, really, who knows what else,” he wrote in a blog post.<br /><br />After everything was sorted out, Gizmodo regained access to the account and provided the <span style="color: red;">416,000 followers </span>with a brief explanation as to what happened.<br /><br />“To be clear, a former Gizmodo employee's Twitter account appears to have been hacked, and that is how those tweets appeared on,” read a post made by Gizmodo after the account had been recovered.<br /><br />“Apologies to those who saw those tweets. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.”<br /><br />As far as <a href="https://twitter.com/michiokaku" target="_blank">Clan VV3</a> is concerned, the list of Twitter accounts they’ve compromised in the past, according to their website, is impressive. It includes the accounts of Tami Roman (664,000 followers) Whitney Cummings (659,000 followers), Booker Huffman (300,000 followers) and many more.<br /><br />Hacker also release a video of hack but that video is removed by YouTube.<br /><br /></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Gizmodo Twitter Account Hacked by Clan VV3

Clan VV3, a group of hackers who are expert in “jacking” Twitter and YouTube accounts, has managed to take over the profile of tech news website Gizmodo.Apparently, it all started when the hackers com…

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Hackers Hit Reuters, Post Fake Blog on Syria

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">NEW YORK: Hackers took over the blogging platform of the Reuters news agency and posted “fabricated” stories said to include an interview with a Syrian rebel leader, the company said Friday.<br /><br />“Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday,” said a statement from parent firm Thomson Reuters.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPBqgiJHzbMISoYlPsiIFBOcz8hKq678Txbv4WGM4kZY2a0TP7hUYov9rgZ2VVKow7zr647sXZ7JREXSfANoI9P88lpapHR2PZLc-9YFZZQhkS7n7mXN7YXvGSvfyFJfnQ-M5tqP1Nv_TO/s1600/Reuters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPBqgiJHzbMISoYlPsiIFBOcz8hKq678Txbv4WGM4kZY2a0TP7hUYov9rgZ2VVKow7zr647sXZ7JREXSfANoI9P88lpapHR2PZLc-9YFZZQhkS7n7mXN7YXvGSvfyFJfnQ-M5tqP1Nv_TO/s320/Reuters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br />“Our blogging platform was compromised and fabricated blog posts were falsely attributed to several Reuters journalists.”<br /><br />Among the fake postings was a purported interview with the head of the Free Syrian Army, who was quoted as saying that rebel forces were pulling back after clashes in the city of Aleppo.<br /><br />Reuters said it did not carry out that interview, that the posting has been deleted and that the blogging platform was taken offline as it addresses the problem.<br /><br />Syrian opposition fighters told a news conference Friday in Iraq they would not withdraw from Aleppo, the northern city which has been under attack by regime forces.</div><div class="text_exposed_show"><br /></div></div><a class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" href="https://twitter.com/thehackersmedia">Follow @thehackersmedia</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script></div>

Hackers Hit Reuters, Post Fake Blog on Syria

NEW YORK: Hackers took over the blogging platform of the Reuters news agency and posted “fabricated” stories said to include an interview with a Syrian rebel leader, the company said Friday.“Reuters…

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