Hacking of Pentagon accounts exposes risks: #tellusatoday

We asked what our followers thought about the U.S. Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts being hacked. Comments from Twitter and Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

It tells me anybody's Twitter and YouTube accounts can be hacked. No surprise.

— @mrbillyadon

It's concerning that the military isn't using enough security procedures to prevent hacking of these accounts. More training is needed.

— @fogboy10

It's embarrassing, but I'd rather criminals be able to hack only that, rather than Pentagon servers.

— @sullyrules

Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked, not the Pentagon. Apparently, hacking Twitter's service isn't hard. It happened to my account.

I rarely use Twitter. When I logged on after not using it for two years, I found someone had recently filled in my bio all wrong and posted once, some kind of spam message. I fixed the info and changed the password.

— Mickey Cashen

Psychological operations are nothing new, and media engagement is part of it.

— Daniel Pap

Hacking Twitter and YouTube accounts, really? That's the best the enemy can do for scare tactics and psychological assault? Yawn.

— Daniel Hudson

Twitter has little security, and no responsible entity should have a Twitter account in its name.

— Ower Fave

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