Online activists loyal to the Assad regime targeted FRANCE 24 on Monday, temporarily hacking into two Twitter accounts to spread false reports.

The channel’s Arabic twitter account “@FRANCE24_AR” was hijacked for about three hours in a cyber attack claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hackers only managed to post four tweets to the account’s 405,000 subscribers, spreading false reports about the death of Syrian opposition figures Riad al-Asaad and Manaf Tlass.

The second hacked account belongs to FRANCE 24’s participative platform “The Observers”, a site that covers news through a global network of citizen journalists.

Several international news organisations have suffered similar embarrassments, with the Twitter accounts belonging to Reuters and al Jazeera infiltrated for a short period of time by pro-Assad hackers during the summer of 2012.

French news agency AFP also reported that one of its Twitter photo accounts was hacked for about an hour on February 26.

Also the website of France24 observers was hacked

The website link :

http://observers.france24.com/

Zone-H Mirror :

http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19444514

Source : France24