A hacker claiming link to "Anonymous" has targeted Singapore's best-selling newspaper, The Straits Times, reasoning its move as an act of stopping the site from "misleading" people.
The "Anonymous" hacker group has struck again, this time targeting a best-selling newspaper, The Straits Times. A hacker, who calls himself "The Messiah" claiming link to the hacking group, hijacked the news site in the wake of laws that were introduced in June that required new licensing regulations for news sites. The attack comes just days after a video was posted online, threatening to target the country's infrastructure. The video was posted by a person who claimed connection with the group.
Now, the hacker took control of one of the blogs of the Straits Times' journalists, Irene Tham, according to ITProPortal. The hacker posted a comment on the report written by Tham on the video posted on YouTube, Tuesday. The comment reads, "Dear ST: You just got hacked for misleading the people!"
The allegation made on the reporter for misleading the people came from modifying the "sentence 'war against the Singapore government' into 'war against Singapore'".
"That in our opinion can be very misleading," the hacker commented.
In addition to hacking and making a public accusation, the hacker also demanded an apology from Tham within 48 hours or her resignation, further warning to face serious consequences.
"In the event our demands are not met in the next 48 hours, we will place you in our 'to do' list," the hijacker warned, "and next time you wont be let off this easy."
The affected blog has been taken down by the Singapore Press Holdings, the company that runs ST, and has logged a police report and also alerted the government's IT Security Incident Response Team to take necessary actions to find the intruders.
Prior to this, the Anonymous group also claimed to be responsible for the US National Security Agency (NSA) website outage, which the agency assured was due to an "internal error."
