• 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.
    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      I mean it does depend on the extent of the hack. But usually taking down the website, they don’t take the databases or anything

    • freeman@feddit.org
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      7 hours ago

      Hacking a Social Media profile --> Tearing down a poster

      Hacking a Website --> defacing a facade

      If the blinds arent closed by or a window is left open by accident, some information could get out. If the doors arent locked, the attacker could get access to further information.

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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        6 hours ago

        They didn’t hack anything. Just your plain old DDoS attack which took the service offline for a while, nothing was (at least based on what I read) actually hacked (or cracked as old-school folks like me would like it to be called) or stolen.