Hackers Hack Reuters's Webiste

DUBAI: The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked by an hacker and a false post was posted by them, saying "Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died". The company said that this was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog.

Barb Burg, director of global communications at Reuters News, said "Reuters did not report the false story and the post was immediately deleted. We are working to address the problem."

Reuters had no idea on who was behind the hacking, this was the second time in month that the blogging platform of Reuters.com has been compromised.

On Aug 3, Reuters was forced to shut the platform temporarily after the appearance of unauthorized, and false, reports citing military reverses for rebels in Syria.

Two days later, the company suspended the @ReutersTech Twitter account after it appeared to have been seized, renamed and used to send false tweets apparently designed to undermine the Syrian rebels. Still both incidents are under investigation.

Although the identity of those hackers is not known either, there is an intensifying conflict in cyberspace between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Saudi Arabia has emerged as a staunch opponent of Assad.