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  • Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
  • Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
  • As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    164·
    6 months ago

    Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper “hack”.

    • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.caEnglish
      1033·
      6 months ago

      In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato or tomato.

    • PaulBunyan@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      6 months ago

      313 Team is an Arabic-interest hacker collective, aligned with Iran, Palestine and Iraq, they reportedly used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Truth Social.

      The article seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it was updated?