Anonymous hacker group attacked Kenyan military Twitter accounts and regained control two hours after it was restored.
Amid growing concerns over cyber-security, Anonymous (@Anon_0x03) hacker group took over Twitter accounts of Kenya Defence Forces (@KDFinfo) and KDF's Liaison Officer Major Emmanuel Chirchir. The Kenyan military Twitter account was restored late on Monday, but the notorious group hacked the account again in just two hours and started posting offensive content. Similarly, the official Twitter account of Major Chirchir (@MajorEChirchir) was hacked minutes after he posted a thank you note to the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit for recovering the accounts.
The most recent tweets from both Twitter accounts suggest the hacker group to be still in control. Anonymous also claimed responsibility for hacking another Kenyan website, one of which is down for maintenance. But the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons of Kenya and Integrated Financial Management Information System of Kenya appear to be working normally despite Anonymous' claims of hacks.
series of tweets were posted on the Kenyan military accounts but a large chunk appears to have been removed by the account admin. Some of the tweets that currently appear on the site are from a second hack on these accounts.
Account hacked Again by @Anon_0x03 and Anonymous Kenya!
— Major E K Chirchir (@MajorEChirchir) July 21, 2014
The hacker group also posted pictures of children in a long line for food. One of the pictures was captioned with, "And spending money on ak-47 ...," criticizing President Uhury Kenyatta's government for buying guns instead of feeding the hungry. Several abusive tweets were also published on the feeds.
Account hacked Again by @Anon_0x03 and Anonymous Kenya FUCK YOU ARMY! — Kenya Defence Forces (@kdfinfo) July 21, 2014
Some of the tweets that were removed from the @KDFinfo account were captured by the Sydney Morning Herald and are as follows:
"The Kenya Ministry of Defence is under new management: Anonymous," the group tweeted via @KDFinfo's account.
"The citizens of Kenya are the govt. GoK should respect the rights of all, not just a privileged few. Elitists time to quit," read another tweet.
"Corruption, tribalism & impunity are destroying KE. We should never have elected two criminals," another tweet from the Defence Ministry account read.
"Come on Kenya. We don't know how long we can get away with this. Reply to this tweet now for RT with your message!" the hackers posted in a separate tweet.
The police has failed to identify the people behind the attack but blamed local tech-savvy officials for the hack.
