Hackers Take Over Twitter Accounts Of Hugo Chavez Critics
Several prominent Hugo Chavez critics have been tweeting rather out-of-character things lately, thanks to a targeted attack by a group of hackers.
Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron has 250,000 followers, and he regularly tweets about the failings of Chavez. But early September, his account had about-faced, tweeting nasty things about Padron himself rather than his usual anti-Chavez fare.
As Yahoo! News reports, Padron sent the following tweet on August 31st:
“Chavez knows of the immense death toll that there is in this country, so why such indifference to the subject of insecurity?”
But by September third he was tweeting:
“In no way have I contributed to combat racism, discrimination, cultural alienation.
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