A pro-Syrian regime hacker collective known as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) recently compromised the Twitter, Google Apps and other accounts belonging to The Onion, a long-running satirical news publication in the U.S. Like The New York Times before it, The Onion published a fascinating (non-comical) tell-all, indicating that it, like the Associated Press, had fallen victim to a SEA spear phishing campaign. The Onion s IT team now admits that it did not know for sure which accounts were compromised and forced a password reset for every company account.
Source: https://threatpost.com/how-the-sea-compromised-americas-finest-news-source/100430/