“Obama traitor to rescue Al-Qaeda insurgents,” US Marine Corps Site Hacked By Syria

A website for the US Marine Corps has been hacked with a post attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army that criticized US President Barack Obama and called American soldiers “brothers” of the Syrian army.

The message said Marines should be allies with forces fighting for Syria and showed five people dressed in army fatigues holding signs that said they wouldn’t fight for al-Qaeda.

“Obama is a traitor who wants to put your lives in danger to rescue al-Qaeda insurgents,” according to the posting on the website, marines.com. “Marines, please take a look at what your comrades think about Obama’s alliance with al-Qaeda against Syria.”

The site “itself was not compromised or ‘hacked’,” spokesman Captain Eric Flanagan said on behalf of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command that operates the website. “It was redirected for a limited amount of hours overnight” and no confidential or personal information “was put at risk”, he said.




Flanagan said at this point the command can’t confirm who was responsible for redirecting the site.

The message has now been removed and the website has returned to normal.
The hack follows those on the New York Times, the Huffington Post and the Twitter accounts for the Financial Times and ITV by a group using the Syrian Electronic Army name – a hacker network that claims to support the Syrian government and President Bashar al-Assad.

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