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Just Now Syrian Electronic Army hacked Viber (a chat based app) systems and they announced this hack through a tweet which reads:

Warning: If you have “Viber” app installed we advise you to delete it, more details on: http://support.viber.com  #SEA #SyrianElectronicArmy

They also hacked and defaced http://support.viber.com/ and announced there about the hack, they also published Viber Administrators Mobile Number, Name, Email & a screenshot of the hacked Viber’s system.

SEA Announced:

Dear All Viber Users,

The Israeli-based “Viber” is spying and tracking you

We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking

By the announcement we better came to know that SEA hacked some of the Viber Systems because they are spying on you and this hack happens just a minute ago of the time we published this news.

Here is the Screenshot Provided by Syrian Electronic Army of the Hacked Systems of Viber:

Full Image at: https://imo.im/fd/E/g4t0x9bad8/viber_sy.png

About Viber:

Viber is a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones developed by Viber Media. In addition to text messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages.

SEA also stated at the support.viber.com page that some of the backups they have downloaded successfully

Update:

(Official Statement of Viber regards the Hack) VIA (TechCrunch)

Today the Viber Support site was defaced after a Viber employee unfortunately fell victim to an email phishing attack. The phishing attack allowed access to two minor systems: a customer support panel and a support administration system. Information from one of these systems was posted on the defaced page.

It is very important to emphasize that no sensitive user data was exposed and that Viber’s databases were not “hacked”. Sensitive, private user information is kept in a secure system that cannot be accessed through this type of attack and is not part of our support system.

We take this incident very seriously and we are working right now to return the support site to full service for our users. Additionally, we want to assure all of our users that we are reviewing all of our policies to make sure that no such incident is repeated in the future.

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