The Onion is the first news outlet — satirical or straight — to detail exactly how its Twitter accounts were owned by the Syrian Electronic Army. The satirical site’s IT team reported that “simple security measures” would have blocked the attacks. The group is allied to the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, and hacktivist group member “Th3 Pr0” told The New York Times that the Onion account takeover was meant to be revenge for its recent Assad-attributed editorial titled “Hi, In The Past 2 Years, You Have Allowed Me To Kill 70,000 People””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/how-syrian-electronic-army-unpeeled-the-onion