{"id":26820,"date":"2021-10-08T13:42:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=26820"},"modified":"2021-10-08T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:42:41","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-facebook-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/ethiopian-airlines-facebook-account-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; Facebook account hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; Facebook page has been hacked and a bogus message from the chief executive was posted on its account, the company says.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/06\/africa\/ethiopian-airlines-investigation-tigray-war-intl-cmd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The hacking is related to a CNN story<\/a>&nbsp;that the national carrier has been used to transport weapons to Eritrea during the conflict in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Eritrea is an ally of Ethiopia&#8217;s federal government in its civil war with Tigrayan fighters.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ethiopian Airlines refuted the report, CNN says.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the bogus Facebook post, airline boss Tewolde Gebremariam appeared to imply that the story was correct and warned people against leaking similar information.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But in a tweet earlier on Friday, the company says its Facebook account was &#8220;temporarily compromised&#8221; and a &#8220;fake statement was posted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Its Facebook account is now under its control, the airline added.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:embed {\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flyethiopian\/status\/1446370214938095645\",\"type\":\"rich\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"twitter\",\"responsive\":true} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iUvQ5K32u7\">pic.twitter.com\/iUvQ5K32u7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ethiopian Airlines (@flyethiopian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flyethiopian\/status\/1446370214938095645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; Facebook page has been hacked and a bogus message from the chief executive was posted on its account, the company says. The hacking is related to a CNN story&nbsp;that the national carrier has been used to transport weapons to Eritrea during the conflict in Ethiopia&#8217;s Tigray region. 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