The well known Syrian Electronic Army or SEA ξαναχτυπά. Η Ένα σημάδι πυρηνικής ακτινοβολίας πάνω σε μία ισραηλινή σημαία, ανησύχησε πάρα πολύ κόσμο όταν ο λογαριασμός στο Twitter of the Israeli Defense Force warned of a possible radioactivity leak at the Dimona nuclear facility:
# CAUTION: Possible nuclear leak in the area, 2 rockets hit the Dimona nuclear plant
in English
#WARNING: Possible nuclear leak in the region after 2 rockets hit Dimona nuclear facility
The Negev Nuclear Research Center is located just 13 kilometers from the city and the news that it was hit by two rockets caused panic among the 252.000 followers of the Israeli Army.
Before the residents started running for the nearest shelter, a tweet came from the Syrian Electronic Army who denied the news and said they had broken the account of the Israeli armed forces.
The screenshot published by the hackers αποδείκνυε ότι η ομάδα είχε αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στο πάνελ διαχείρισης του Hootsuite, ένα client του Twitter που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τη διαχείριση των tweets.
When the Israeli army discovered what had happened, he deleted the tweets and published an apology:
We apologize for the false tweets as our twitter account was violated. We will fight terrorism on all fronts, including cyberspace
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The Twitter hack came almost a week after the SEA team hacked the IDF's official blog. On Sunday the blog, which was still "under maintenance." We should mention that the webσελίδα it was distorted and showed a message written in Arabic.