Some of CNN's social media
accounts and blogs were compromised Thursday.
The affected accounts included CNN's main
Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN
and CNN's Security Clearance. Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security
Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also hacked.
The posts were deleted within minutes and the
accounts have since been secured.
Some of the posts claimed that the Syrian
Electronic Army, a group of pro-Syrian regime hackers that has aggressively
targeted major news organizations and activists, was responsible.
"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here...Stop
lying... All your reports are fake!" one of the posts on CNN's Twitter
account said.
Another post Thursday night on a Twitter
account purportedly tied to the group said it was retaliating for "viciously
lying reporting aimed at prolonging the suffering in Syria."
Last year the Syrian Electronic Army claimed
credit for a 20-hour-long outage of the New York Times website.
The group also claims to have hacked other
major American and British news organizations, as well as Columbia University
and rights group Human Rights Watch.
From cnn.com
