Syrian Electronic Army Hacks TIME Magazine Over Cr

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks TIME Magazine Over Critical Description Of Assad

Excerpted from RT: The hacktivist pro-Assad group known as the “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA) briefly hijacked the Twitter feeds of TIME magazine in response to a critical description of President Assad’s candidacy for its ‘Person of the year’ award.

The SEA has tweeted from TIME’s official account: “Syrian Electronic Army was here via @Official_SEA16. Next time write a better word about the Syrian president #SEA”.

That tweet was soon deleted.

The group referred to TIME’s list of people – politicians and celebrities – selected as potential winners for “Person of the Year,” the magazine’s annual award.

Syrian President Bashar Assad is one of the candidates, while the magazine describes him as: “Syria’s ruler presided over a bloody year, shrugging off international concerns over the use of chemical weapons as the death toll of his country’s civil war eclipsed 100,000.”

The voting closes on December, 4, with TIME’s Person of the Year to be announced on December 11.

The SEA also claimed interfering with the vote on the US magazine’s webpage.

We closed @TIME vote temporarily while they edit the Syrian president description on the website #SEA pic.twitter.com/qQfCcbR6K2

— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 29, 2013

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