A hacker group briefly took control of portions of the Washington Post, Time and CNN websites on Thursday after breaking into an article recommendation service used by the news outlets. The Syrian Electronic Army took credit for the breach, with one member telling the Daily Beast that its ongoing assault on news websites is part of a campaign to call out Twitter for repeatedly shutting down the army’s account. The member said the group has opened up its 16th Twitter account. The SEA posted screen shots showing that it had entered an administration portal for Outbrain, an article recommendation service that sends visitors to websites by recommending their content at the bottom of online articles of big publishers such as the Post. In this case, the hackers inserted links to a SEA website at the bottom of the articles, which caused some people to be redirected to the SEA page. Read more http://www.latimes.com/business/tec...hington-post-website-20130815,0,7825420.story
