Add the Financial Times to the list of publications who have been compromised in recent months by an anonymous hacker collective calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army."
One FT blog and multiple social media accounts were hacked into on Friday morning, a spokeswoman for the FT confirmed to Mashable. On the FT.com blogs page, the headlines of some recent posts read, "Tech blog: Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army," according to screenshots obtained by The Telegraph. The group also posted the message, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here," to various FT Twitter accounts, including @FTMarkets and @thelexcolumn.
As of 10 a.m. ET, the errant messages posted on the FT.com and @FTMarkets had been removed; the @thelexcolumn account has been suspended.
The FT did not comment on how hackers breached the FT accounts, only saying that the publication is "working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."
The hacker group did tweet a clue as to how it gained access to FT accounts however, posting the e-mail address and password of an FT executive on its own Twitter account. The organization has used e-mail phishing to hack into the websites and social media profiles of other publications, including The Onion.
In addition to The Onion and the FT, The Guardian, E! Online and The Associated Press have all been victims of Syrian Electronic Army hacks. The hack into the AP's primary Twitter account had the most impact. A tweet that read "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" sent the Dow down 70 points in a matter of seconds last month.
Update: A FT spokesperson e-mailed out a correction stating that only one, and not multiple, FT blogs were compromised Friday. The article text has been updated to reflect that information.