Syrian Electronic Army was silent from many days and today they wake up and again starts their hack, their latest target is truecaller.com.
SEA hijacked their website through wordpress and claimed that they have the database of True Caller which contains million of access codes of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Gmail Accounts of different users, that can be used to post update from compromised Accounts.
SEA tweeted about the hack from their official twitter account:
Sorry @Truecaller, we needed your database, thank you for it :) http://t.co/fC6ZyYAGTG #SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA12) July 17, 2013
SEA also tweeted the login credential of the truecaller database:
Screenshot from SEA of true caller’s wordpress account which shows that they are still using the older version of wordpress, which is a main cause here to be hacked:
After the hack, truecaller shut down their website with the following message:
We are doing some upgrades.
Thank you for your patience.
Please return again shortly or visit us on
facebook, twitter or google+.
True Caller shut down their website:
This is an exclusive news from EHN.
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