14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier today, hacktivists related to the Anonymous group in Kenya have announced that the Twitter accounts of Kenya Defence Forces and of its spokesman, Major Emmanuel Chirchir, have been hacked for the second time in less than 24 hours.
The two accounts were first removed from the control of their owners by the operators behind the @Anon_0x03 Twitter handle before midnight, on Sunday.
After the first hijack, multiple tweets were delivered through the official account of Kenya Defence Forces, criticizing the government and the country’s president for the perpetuating hunger and human trafficking.
Six hours before the second successful hack, a tweet from Major Emmanuel Chirchir extended appreciation to the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (@PSCU_Digital) for recovering the accounts.
The next post was a retweet from Kenya Defence Forces, which was already in the hands of the hackers, letting people know that @Anon_0x03 was again in control of both accounts.
Account hacked Again by @Anon_0x03 and Anonymous Kenya!
— Major E K Chirchir (@MajorEChirchir) July 21, 2014At the moment of writing, access to the webpages of the two Kenyan institutions is blocked and only a message from the hackers can be read: “Pwned BY ANON_0X03 AND ANONYMOUS KENYA.”
A set of messages followed, one of them saying, “Violence produces violence,” while others were accompanied by images showing children waiting in line for food.
