A group claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army have taken responsibility for the attack
Barcelona's official Twitter accounts were hacked last night by activists claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army.
The Spanish champions had just beaten Manchester City in their hotly-anticipated Champions League clash when messages appeared on three of the club's different social media accounts reading: 'Dear FC Barcelona management, don't let the Qatari money funds you, it's full of blood and kill [sic].'
The messages remained on the Catalan, English and Castilian Spanish Twitter feeds of the club for some twenty minutes before being finally removed, but not until the hackers had a final say by involving Barca's archrivals Real Madrid, tweeting: 'Special hi to Real Madrid,' before linking to the page of the Syrian Electronic Army.
This is the latest in a series of high-profile cyber-hijacks by the online group, which has included major news organisations like Reuters, Forbes and CNN as well as other significant websites including eBay, Paypal, Facebook and Microsoft.
In April 2013, an attack on the Associated Press news agency allowed the hackers to disseminate false claims that the White House had been the subject of a bomb attack and that President Obama was injured. It led to a loss of more than US$130billion from the value of the Stock Exchange.
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