MelbourneIT breach behind hacking of New York Times, Twitter

[abdussamad]

The recent hacking of the ny times, twitter and the huffington post was done by hackers who gained access to the domain control panel of a MelbourneIT reseller:

The Syrian Electronic Army, or SEA, managed to gain control of the sites by penetrating MelbourneIT, an Australian Internet service provider that sells and manages domain names including Twitter.com and NYTimes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/net-us-newyorktimes-hacked-idUSBRE97Q11J20130828