Seven & Nine Fall Victim To Weird Facebook Hack Targeting News Outlets

Seven & Nine Fall Victim To Weird Facebook Hack Targeting News Outlets

Seven and Nine are among a number of Australian-based news outlets that have been targeted in a strange Facebook hack overnight.

According to a statement issued by Seven’s Sunrise, users of trusted news services on the social platform such are being directed to the site of a rabbi, believed to be the former Harvard roommate of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.

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“It is unclear who is behind the hacking or how far reaching it is,” the statement said.

Sunrise revealed this morning that its own Facebook page, as well as the 7 News and Sunday Night pages, were among those affected.

Following the security breach, all Channel 7 Facebook pages were taken offline and most have since been re-published, according to the Seven brekkie show.

B&T also understands that Nine’s Facebook pages have been compromised by the hack. However, Ten, SBS, News Corp, and Fairfax have confirmed their Facebook accounts haven’t been affected.

A Facebook spokesperson told B&T that some pages were incorrectly redirected for a couple of hours yesterday.

“This was due to a misconfiguration, not a hack or a security issue,” the spokesperson said.

“We promptly fixed the matter and the affected pages are working normally.”




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