ISIS sympathizers hacked Newsweek’s Twitter account for 14 minutes on Tuesday morning. While in control, the self-ascribed ‘Cyber Caliphate’ tweeted threats to the President Obama, his wife, and children.
@Newsweek allegedly hacked by #ISIS group: threatening tweet directed towards #FLOTUS & #Obama family pic.twitter.com/sgsDCISnJI
— Sabrina Caserta (@sabrinacaserta) February 10, 2015The International Business Times’ website and the Latin Times Twitter account were also hacked Tuesday. The two news organizations, along with Newsweek, share the parent company IBT Media.
Only last month the group hacked the U.S. Central Command’s Twitter account during the very hour that President Obama was delivering a speech on cyber security.
Similarly to the @CENTCOM hack, the ‘Cyber Caliphate’ changed Newsweek’s profile picture to a masked man and the words ‘Je suIS IS.’ It also proceeded to ‘leak’ confidential documents from the account.
Whoa, @Newsweek is hacked & leaking "confidential documents about Pentagon warfare in social networks" right now: pic.twitter.com/odF3tpYOd0
— Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) February 10, 2015Newsweek promptly regained control of their account and issued an apology:
We're back on Twitter after being hacked— http://t.co/SAcVexnGSk
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 10, 2015