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theonion.com Data Breach (2013)

theonion.com

lowVERIS
Disclosed

May 3, 2013

4711 days ago

Records

3

Confirmed

Root Cause

Phishing

Industry

Technology

Description

Syrian Electronic Army uses Social Engineering to gain passwords to systems and then uses the passwords to post unauthorized twitter messages. Also posted content of staff email to their own Twitter feed