http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/syrian-hackers-world-cup-twitter/
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Mashable.com
April 22, 2013
The official Twitter accounts of the World Cup and FIFA's President Joseph
Blatter have been hacked, apparently by Syrian hackers.
On Monday afternoon, both @FifaWorldCup and @SeppBlatter started sending weird
tweets, hinting that hackers had taken over control of the accounts. And it
quickly became clear that the messages posted were not from their real owners.
Both accounts started sending tweets about Joseph Blatter allegedly stepping
down due to corruption charges stemming from an imaginary FIFA investigation
that found that the Emir of Qatar had bribed Blatter to convince FIFA to select
Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup.
Any doubts regarding the veracity of the tweets were finally swept away when
the people behind the hack claimed responsibility.
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