{"id":646204,"date":"2013-03-11T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=220470"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T16:34:10","slug":"colin-powells-facebook-page-hacked-disses-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646204","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell\u2019s Facebook Page Hacked, Disses Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell is the latest public figure to lose control of their social media account.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GenPowell?filter=1\">Powell&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> was commandeered by an unknown hacker, who began to fill the page with anti-George W. Bush posts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BUSH IS WALKING IN HIS ROOM WITH A KUKLUXKLAN HAT ON HIS TARDED HEAD,&#8221; read one post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YOU ARE SUCH ASS HOLE COLIN YOU WILL BURN IN HELL FOR THE CRIMES YOU AN ALL BUSH AND ROCKFELLES AND OTHERS!&#8221; read another. <\/p>\n<p>The hacker also posted <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2013\/02\/11\/bush-family-photos-hacked\/\">Bush family photos that leaked last month<\/a> to a new photo album.<\/p>\n<p>Users tried to alert Powell that his account had been compromised, and eventually the page went down &#8211; presumably to fix the intrusion. <\/p>\n<p>Once he regained control of the account, General Powell posted this message to his 81,000+ followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Dear Friends, as most of you realize, my fb page has obviously been hacked. I&#8217;m sorry you have to see all the stupid, obscene posts that are popping up. Please ignore as we are working with fb to take care of this problem. I appreciate your patience.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminder: Everyone has to be vigilant when it comes to password security, but if you&#8217;re a public figure you have to be extra cautious.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=tTAF_0QmIGc:aBpJrGGGwYY:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/tTAF_0QmIGc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell is the latest public figure to lose control of their social media account. Earlier this morning, Powell&#8217;s Facebook page was commandeered by an unknown hacker, who began to fill the page with anti-George W. Bush posts. &#8220;BUSH IS WALKING IN HIS ROOM WITH A KUKLUXKLAN HAT ON HIS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646204","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\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}