The Onion Explains Twitter Hack
Humor site offers serious advice for avoiding attacks
The Onion—a publication that doesn't even offer real news—seems like an odd target for the Syrian Electronic Army, but the satirical news site claimed its Twitter account fell victim to hackers from the group earlier this week.
Now The Onion's tech team has posted on how the hack happened—and offered tips for other publications to avoid the same fate.
The hack started with phishing emails sent to several Onion staffers, according to the post, and at least one person at the company fell for it.
"Once the attackers had access to one Onion employee’s account, they used that account to send the same email to more Onion staff at about 2:30 AM on Monday, May 6," the post continued.
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