They're back: Syrian Electronic Army Hacks WaPo Article Recommendations

The Syrian Electronic Army is back. This time, they hacked an article recommendation service used by many large news organizations: Outbrain.Online The Washington Post has a small box underneath all of its articles that display recommendations. Instead, the box said "Hacked by SEA." The Post confirmed that the site was hijacked. In a later article, WaPo linked the attack to Outbrain, a service that is responsible for the site's article recommendations.
Outbrain soon posted on Twitter that it was hacked, but didn't blame anyone. Outbrain also notes that "the breach now seems to be secured."

Due to an attack, our recommendations are down. Our team is working to get our system secure & up shortly. Apologize for any inconvenience.

— Outbrain (@Outbrain) August 15, 2013

The Army's new Twitter account, @Official_SEA16, tweeted about the hack today.

@TIME, @CNN, @Washingtonpost websites hacked in one strike by hacking @outbrain #SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy #Syria pic.twitter.com/5OI1BE2oCM

— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) August 15, 2013

The Army also posted a photo of the compromised Outbrain console.

Largest Hacking Scheme in U.S. History Uncovered

Four Russians and a Ukrainian are being charged with operating an enormous hacking organization that for the past seven years, been breaking into major corporate networks in the United States and around the world.
Indictments were announced today in Newark, New Jersey. The attorney called it the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States.
The hackers acquired more than 160 million credit and debit card numbers, which were then sold on the black market.
Losses are estimated to be in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Corporate victims include the NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, JCP, Hannaford, Heartland, Wet Seal, Commidea, Dexia, JetBlue, Dow Jones, Euronet, Visa Jordan, Global Payment, Diners Singapore and Ingenicard.
The hackers are Vladimir Drinkman, Aleksander Kalinin, Roman Kotov, Dmitriy Smilianets, and Mikhaol Rytikov.

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