'60 Minutes' and '48 Hours' Twitter Accounts Suspended After Being Hacked

Several
CBS
Twitter
accounts
have
been
hijacked
and were used to send bogus messages.
On Saturday, a tweet posted on "60
Minutes" account read, "Exclusive: Terror
is striking the #USA and #Obama is
Shamelessly in Bed with Al-Qaeda," and
was retweeted on "48 Hours" feed.
Other tweets posted by the hacker(s)
were about Syrian propaganda. "the US
government is sponsoring a coup in
Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria,"
and "Obama wants to destroy the Syrian
and American people. We must stop this
beast" were some of other fake messages
posted on "60 Minutes" account.
CBS has confirmed that their accounts
were compromised. "We have
experienced problems on Twitter
accounts of #60Minutes & @48Hours; We
apologize for the inconvenience; Twitter
is resolving issues," it tweeted from CBS
News account.
By Saturday afternoon, CBS regained the
control on both "60 Minutes" and "48
Hours" Twitter accounts, and the fake
messages were removed. Hours later,
however, the accounts were
compromised again and are currently
suspended.
While CBS is still working with Twitter to
investigate the issue, some believe that
the Syrian Electronic Army is responsible
for taking over CBS feeds. Previously, the
same group hacked the Twitter accounts
for BBC, NPR, and Reuters.