{"id":643452,"date":"2013-02-21T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=339551"},"modified":"2013-02-21T23:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T04:00:55","slug":"anonymous-becomes-latest-victim-in-twitter-hacking-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643452","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Anonymous\u2019 becomes latest victim in Twitter hacking spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/anonymous-twitter-account-hacked-339551\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/anonymouskid-e1343840891357.jpg?w=650&amp;h=435&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Anonymous Twitter Account Hacked\" title=\"Anonymous Kid\" \/><\/a><\/center>Anyone who&#8217;s ever had their <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/02\/17\/anonymous-hacks-two-more-u-s-government-websites\/\">website hacked and defaced by hacker collective Anonymous<\/a> can <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/01\/anonymous-logo-trademark-dispute\/\">have a good laugh at their expense<\/a>, because it looks as though they aren&#8217;t immune to security breaches either. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-21532858\"><em>BBC News<\/em> reports<\/a> that Anonymous this week &#8220;has suffered an embarrassing breach, as one of its popular Twitter feeds is taken over by rival hacktivists.&#8221; The Anonymous Twitter hack follows other high-profile Twitter hacks that have occurred over the past few days, including the Twitter accounts for both Burger King and Jeep.\u00a0Graham Cluley, a senior consultant at security firm Sophos, tells <em>BBC News<\/em> that the hacks likely resulted from <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/05\/blackberry-10-security-forbidden-passwords\/\">poor password practices<\/a>, such as either using weak passwords or using the same password across multiple different accounts across the web.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/r-QaS7d-Plc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s ever had their website hacked and defaced by hacker collective Anonymous can have a good laugh at their expense, because it looks as though they aren&#8217;t immune to security breaches either. BBC News reports that Anonymous this week &#8220;has suffered an embarrassing breach, as one of its popular Twitter feeds is taken over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}