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Oil Producer Saudi Aramco twitter account hacked

Author: Mohit Kumar onWednesday, March 06, 2013
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Twitter continues to implement new security features. But really, who thinks social media will ever be unhackable? The official twitter account of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer hacked by hacker with name 'Mister Rero'.


The background on Saudi Aramco’s official Twitter page and the name has been changed by hacker. So far, no tweets posted by hacker.

Last year in August about 30,000 workstations inside internal computer networks of Saudi Aramco was infected by a virus. Last month Burger King’s and Jeep’s official Twitter accounts was compromised.

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aka 'Unix Root' is Founder and Editor-in-chief of 'The Hacker News'. He is a Security Researcher and Analyst, with experience in various aspects of Information Security. Other than this : He is an Internet Activist, Strong supporter of Anonymous & Wikileaks. Follow him @ Twitter | LinkedIn | | | Facebook Profile