It seems to be more than coincidence that the week both President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced new ventures for fighting against cybersecurity threats is also the week that both a military and news outlet's Twitter accounts get hacked.
On Friday, Jan. 16th, the New York Post and United Press International's twitter accounts were hacked by an unknown hacker. Within the short time of the hacking, the two accounts posted 10 fake news headlines before they were locked out. These included the Pope announcing world war three, and the Bank of America CEO calling for calm after a decision made by the Federal Reserve. UPI also had their website hacked hacked, where a fake story about the Federal Reserve was quickly posted and then taken down.
A spokeswoman for the New York Post told the press that they were investigating the hacker but had no information as to who did it yet.
These events came quickly after a series of other successful hackings. The pro-Islamic State group Cyber Caliphate hacked into the Pentagon/Central Command's Twitter and Youtube accounts and posted a series of files that looked like they were classified listings of soldier's locations , but turned out to be files from open-access sites that any person could use.
Crayola also had their Facebook account hacked, where a series of off-color jokes and sexual content was posted. Crayola apologized for the events and promised to do all they could to make sure it would not happen again.
