Hackers target Obama's Twitter account links****TECHNOLOGY, US: NEWS, BARACK OBAMA, BUSINESS NEWS **** CNBC.com | Monday, 28 Oct 2013 | 2:04 PM ET ****It appears a prominent element of President Barack Obama's<http://www.cnbc.com/id/10000398>Twitter presence was briefly compromised on Monday. **** A link sent out from the president's Twitter account @BarackObama<https://twitter.com/barackobama>was meant to send people to a story on the *The* *Washington Post's* website, but instead it sent many of those who clicked to a video on YouTube about terrorism and Syria. **** The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed responsibility for the breach in a Twitter post. **** "Thanks to our operation, Twitter now blocks Obama's dangerous propaganda links. #SEA"<https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/394888463247343616> **** The link now appears to be working correctly. CNBC has reached out to the White House for comment, but has not yet received a response. **** It's important to note that @BarackObama's official Twitter account, which has about 39 million followers, was not hacked, but the link shortener tool that the president's campaign team uses to share links on Twitter was breached. **** The link shortener is a third-party tool used by Obama's Organizing for Action <https://my.barackobama.com/page/s/organizing-for-action> grass roots campaign and it is not affiliated with Twitter. **** "It appears a custom, third-party URL shortener which OFA uses to produce vanity URLs was compromised, not the Twitter account," a Twitter spokesperson told CNBC. *** * In another Twitter post Monday, the SEA also said they had gained access to many of Obama's campaign email accounts. **** "We accessed many Obama campaign emails accounts to assess his terrorism capabilities. They are quite high #SEA"<https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/394878079044055041> **** The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for several big attacks on media organizations. Most recently, SEA claimed to have been responsible for taking down *The* *New York Times* website in August. It also claimed it had taken down Twitter.com's domain registration in August. **** (*Read more*: New York Times website likely taken down by malicious attack <http://www.cnbc.com/id/100988768> ) **** —*By CNBC's Cadie Thompson. Follow her on Twitter **@CadieThompson*<https://twitter.com/CadieThompson>. **** —*Eamon Javers and Eli Langer contributed to this report.* **** © 2013 CNBC.com****URL: http://www.cnbc.com/101149112**** ** **
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