Who the individual members of the Syrian Electronic Army are and where they're from is also shrouded in mystery.
The Syrian Electronic Army's typical tactics to date have included sending "phishing" emails to glean log-in information from unsuspecting victims.
In a Twitter post, a group identifying itself as the Syrian Electronic Army took responsibility for the fake AP message.
Back in February the English website of the news organisation was hacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).
But while the Syrian Electronic Army's activities bear some similarities to those of Anonymous, the group is quite different in other ways, said Noman.
He has been tracking the Syrian Electronic Army since May 2011, when it first emerged as an organized group with a Facebook page and then its own website.
That hacking too was attributed to the Syrian Electronic Army.
The Syrian Electronic Army claims to have been behind similar attacks on the twitter feeds of Agence France Presse news agency, Sky News Arabia, al-Jazeera mobile and CBS News.
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The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack.
In an article on the FT's website, the paper said 12 posts titled "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army" appeared on its Tech blog between 8:38 a.m. and 8:42 a.m. on Friday.
"Right now Twitter's 2FA (two-factor authentication) is more likely to be welcomed by individuals who own personal accounts, and small companies with a Twitter presence, than embraced by the high profile victims attacked by the (hacker group) Syrian Electronic Army in the past, " Graham Cluley, of Sophos Security, wrote on his blog.
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