The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

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https://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051013-the-onion-explains-how-its-269630.html

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
May 09, 2013

Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but 
effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup 
by the publisher's technology team.

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group supporting embattled Syrian 
President Bashar al-Assad, has also compromised prominent Twitter 
accounts, including those of the Associated Press, The Guardian, the BBC 
and NBC News.

The Onion, the spoof media outlet that calls itself "America's Finest 
News Source," saw its Twitter account taken over on Monday. The Onion 
satirized the hacking with a story saying that it had changed its 
Twitter password to "OnionMan77."

But The Onion technology team wrote a serious post on Thursday 
explaining how it temporarily lost control of the account.

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