CBS Twitter accounts hacked by 'pro-Damascus group'

[pampango]

Source: BBC

Fake messages appearing on the @60Minutes account criticised US support for "terrorist" rebels in Syria and others accused Barack Obama of trying to "take away your guns". A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have been responsible for hijacking the accounts.

The SEA group has previously put out messages in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It appeared to behind the takeover of several BBC Twitter accounts last month and some of NPR's accounts last week.

A CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. CBS said it was working with Twitter to "resolve the issue".

The fake messages that appeared on the @60Minutes account reportedly included:

"The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
"The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
"Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
"Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast"

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22237458

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Love the:

"Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast"
"Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
"The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"

Sounds like the hackers may have a tea party connection.

[OKNancy]

1. Interesting.. I had a different take

"Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast"
"Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
"The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"

Sounds like the hackers may have a tea party connection.

Sounds like some DUers to me.

[pampango]

2. I had not thought of that. You may have something there.

[JDPriestly]

3. Sounds like people have been lied to so much that they make up their

own facts. That is what the Tea Baggers and DUers have in common. We have been lied to too much.

[pampango]

4. "That is what the Tea Baggers and DUers have in common" makes me very uncomfortable.

I am not sure that being lied to is the basis for Tea Baggers rejecting anything progressive. They tend to be either libertarians or fundamentalists who 'know' what they believe is right and just do not trust the government or secular liberals.

[freshwest]

5. As usual the Kochroaches come to feed on all the blood they can find.

Then they crap CT and rouse the fear, hopeful for more:

Another prophet of disaster
Who says the ship is lost
Another prophet of disaster
Leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with visions
Afflicting us with fear
Predicting war for millions
In the hope that one appears

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on
If you're gonna try, just stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

In 13 the beast is rising
The frenchman did surmise
Through earthquakes and starvation
The warlord will arise
Terror, death, destruction
Pour from the eastern sands
But the truth of all predictions
Is always in your hands

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on
If you're gonna try, just stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

I'm getting tired of their crap.