FT website hacked with Syrian horror video showing nine people being shot
The Financial Times website was hacked on Friday by supporters of President Assad , with the message appearing, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here."
Twitter locked the account
The FT confirmed the attack on the site itself but did not give details . The American magazine AdAge said a message on The FT Trading Room Twitter account read, "Do you want to know the reality of the Syrian 'Rebels'? Just watch this video."
The link showed a man cutting the heart from a corpse as a voice says "I swear in the name of god that we will eat from your hearts and livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog."
On the newspaper's @ftmedia Twitter page, a video clip -- since deleted said AdAge -- was posted with the text "Jabnet A-Nosra terrorists executed innocent citizens #SEA #Syria."
AdAge said that in the video, a masked person appears, reading from a paper before shooting about nine people kneeling blindfolded in the back of their heads. The gunman is flanked by two people carrying black flags with a white motif.
The hacking attack accounts again highlights users' concerns that it's too easy to compromise social-media channels such as Twitter, said the magazine.
"We have now locked those accounts and are grateful for Twitter's help on this," Robert Shrimsley, managing editor for FT.com, said on the newspaper's website.
"Unfortunately this is an increasingly common issue for major news organisations."
Last month, hackers hijacked the Associated Press' Twitter account, posting a false claim that President Obama had been injured in an attack on the White House. Stock markets fell 1% in a matter of seconds before swiftly recovering.
Twitter said it didn't "comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons."
The FT, owned by Pearson, said that some of its employees had received phishing emails in the days before the attack, designed to trick them into revealing information.