Hacks

DUBAI | Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:24pm BST (Reuters) - The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said. Reuters News did not report the false story and the fabricated posting on reuters.com has been deleted. Reuters had no immediate information on who was behind the hacking.

So far I've read a couple of reports today, on the possible death of H.R.H., may Allah grant him a speed recovery, which supposedly was on Tuesday, and it was some Arabic site .
Unfortunately in few years I've been on Arab lands I was lazy enough not to learn the language, other than what is related to religious matters, so I must rely on online translators .

This statement from Reuters, about their site being hacked with fabricated news, sounds just as fake as the news itself .
The fact though, that at least in this case, unlike prince Bandar accident, media are speaking now of "an official source inside the Ministry" denying the claim, that speaks volumes of the impact the episode had .
Of course we will never know anything but gossips, about what really happened, but if Reuters was so easy to hack, that would be just cheap .

This is another mediatic attack in few days, which is not possible to explain only like a war of nerves with enemies from outside .
There must be some further development within the Kingdom .
And the timing was perfect, as today the OIC meeting is in full swing .
For this and other events, Saudi Arabia is paying for its lack of transparency .