Forbes Website And Twitter Accounts Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Forbes, leading american business magazine got hacked by famous hacker group Syrian Electronic Army. The SEA has managed to post articles entitled "hacked by syrian electronic army".
According to the screen shots published by SEA it appears that they have gained admin access to the wordpress admin panel that allowed them to post stories. We believe that hackers used the same phishing method for compromising Forbes' employees like in the past hacking of microsoftand skype.

Along with the site few twitter accounts belonging to the forbes and it's employees were also hacked during the latest round of attack by the Syrian Electronic Army. Affected twitter accounts : - @samsharf, @ForbesTech, @TheAlexKnapp

The hackers said the reason for hacking forbes is because the publication posted  many articles against syrian electronic army, with much hate for syria.

Update : -

In addition to gaining access to the company’s WordPress admin console and hijacking some Twitter accounts, the group have also gained access to readers’ information. Today SEA tweetedthat they have dumped all the database of the Forbes which includes more the a million of the users details. Forbes also confirmed that breached on the facebook post. 

Security message: Forbes.com was targeted in a digital attack and our publishing platform was compromised. Users' email addresses may have been exposed. The passwords were encrypted, but as a precaution, we strongly encourage Forbes readers and contributors to change their passwords on our system, and encourage them to change them on other websites if they use the same password elsewhere. We have notified law enforcement. We take this matter very seriously and apologize to the members of our community for this breach. Forbes added