{"id":33704,"date":"2014-07-22T16:31:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=33704"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:31:34","slug":"kenya-defence-twitter-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/kenya-defence-twitter-account-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya defence Twitter account hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Twitter accounts of the Kenyan defence forces and its spokesman have been hacked by activists protesting about corruption.<\/p>\n
“All of you who have stolen money #Kenya, we are coming after you,” reads one post.<\/p>\n
The hacked posts were signed as being from activist group Anonymous.<\/p>\n
Kenyan military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir often uses Twitter to give updates of the war against Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group.<\/p>\n
The hackers criticised the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta, saying it only protected the interests of the elite and was not doing enough to tackle poachers and drugs traffickers.<\/p>\n
Col Willy Wesonga said no internal military systems had been infiltrated, reports the AP news agency.<\/p>\n
He said military technicians were trying to find out who was behind the attack.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Frenny Jowi in Nairobi says the insecurity around the defence ministry’s Twitter feed is embarrassing for a government that has been criticised for its response to a number of security challenges recently.<\/p>\n
Last year, a group called Anonymous Africa hacked into the account of Zimbabwe’s defence ministry, and targeted the website of South Africa’s governing African National Congress.<\/p>\n
Anonymous, a loosely-knit group, has been involved in a number of high-profile online protests and attacks in recent years.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Twitter accounts of the Kenyan defence forces and its spokesman have been hacked by activists protesting about corruption. “All of you who have stolen money #Kenya, we are coming after you,” reads one post. The hacked posts were signed as being from activist group Anonymous. Kenyan military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir often uses Twitter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[743,14],"yoast_head":"\n