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We reported a news about Syrian Electronic Army that they were FAILED in the last Cyber Attack on Israel and in result of this news; all of the Android Apps of Sky News were hacked by SEA.

Sky News is a British broadcast company and they became victim of SEA because of this news reported by WP.







In the Google Play Store all of their apps hacked by Syrian Electronic Army and apps description was changed to “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here”. The broadcaster sent out a Tweet instructing anyone who has downloaded the app to uninstall it.


Apps compromised by SEA:
  • Sky+
  • Sky News
  • Sky Go
  • Sky WiFi
  • Sky Movies
  • Sky Sports News

All of the screenshots of the above apps replaced with the image of SEA and replaced the description with their Favourite Tagline – “SEA WAS HERE”

Screenshot from one of the hacked app of Sky News:


In addition, the group has also modified the developer website link on all of Sky News’ apps so that it points to their page. If you tried to email the developer, it also points to an email address believed to belong to the organization.

After the Incident Sky News Confirmed about this: 

Both Sky+, SkyNews Android apps were hacked and replaced, please uninstall the apps play.google.com/store/apps/det…play.google.com/store/apps/det…

— Sky Help Team (@SkyHelpTeam) May 26, 2013

We are unable to find All of the apps which were hacked at the time of writing this post, seems they have been taken down by Sky News and will be stored to original state.

Photos credit: The Next Web

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