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Hackers Seize Church News Twitter Account - Mormon Doctrine Studies - Posted: 14th Jun, 2009 - 12:02am
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Hackers Seize Church News Twitter Account
The account has been suspended and they're waiting for a full investigation and restoration of the account.
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| Hackers hijacked the Church News Twitter account last weekend and Twitter staffers took down the site early today because the infiltrators had gained total control over the Web site. Charlie Crane, director of interactive media for the Deseret News, said he realized Sunday night that the Church News account had been compromised. "We tried to get it back," he said, but he soon realized that the hacker had even been able to change the password and lock him out. "I don't know how they got the password," Crane said. "I'm very skeptical (of Twitter) now." He expressed concern for other Twitter accounts the Deseret News operates. Crane said the hacker posted some anti-Mormon material on the site earlier this week. The Church News and Deseret News are owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through Deseret Management Corp. "It caused the Deseret News and the LDS Church concern," said Tim Conde, an attorney with Stoel Rives who represented the Deseret News in talks with Twitter officials. The initial problem the Deseret News faced was contacting Twitter's administrators. Conde said once contact was made, Twitter agreed the hijacked account was an urgent matter. he Church News Twitter site was suspended by about 10 a.m. Thursday. "Twitter is anxious to get this resolved," Conde said, indicating the focus now is trying to find out who the hackers were and deal with them. There's no indication yet when the site will be up again, but Twitter administrators said they would be contacting Church News staffers later today about restoring their account. The Church News had operated a site on Twitter for about two months. "It's certainly proof in this online society we all need to be careful and monitor things," Conde said. "We're glad Twitter took the matter seriously." |
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It's just part of the new push to be technologically available to people, and use every possible medium to present the Church in a positive light to the world. Basically, it boils down to missionary work, I think. However, in this day and age, obviously they need to have really really good security.
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I think that is what you have a website for and then you merely use these third party sources to direct them to your site where you have control over the content. Hence the reason I do not participate in these 'popular' social networks - you are exposing your information in ways that you really do not have much say over, in addition you are bombarded (as I am sure they are) by spammers and nonsense. Besides, unless you have paid techs doing this why would you want young missionaries doing this stuff?
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