Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Outbrain Content Service

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked into content recommendation service Outbrain and its admin panel.

The SEA acknowledged the attack to E Hacking News and provided screenshots showing that the service's admin panel and website backend were both compromised.

Outbrain is a service that provides publishers with recommended content from their own site and from other network publishers. Its clients include USA Today, CNN, The Washington Post and Time (Mashable has used Outbrain in the past but is not a current customer). By infiltrating Outbrain's main dashboard, the SEA was also able to target the websites of its clients, including CNN and The Washington Post. Read more...