Qatar says state news group hacked
The agency’s central Twitter comment has also been attacked. PHOTO: REUTERS
DOHA: Qatar pronounced Wednesday a central state news group was hacked and subsequently carried a “false statement” on supportive informal topics attributed to a country’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
Amid an apparent wide-scale confidence crack it was also reported that a agency’s central Twitter comment had also been attacked.
Among a issues allegedly addressed by a Qatari ruler in a matter were a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, vital family with Iran, and comments about Hamas.
There were also purported disastrous remarks about Qatar’s attribute with a new administration of US President Donald Trump.
Amid a confusion, Doha pronounced a matter that had seemed on a website and was attributed to a country’s ruler was totally untrue.
“The Qatar News Agency website has been hacked by an different entity,” reported a Government Communications Office in a statement.
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“A fake matter attributed to His Highness has been published.”
The communications bureau combined that an review would be launched into a confidence breach.
The “false statement” posted online claimed a emir spoke on Tuesday, dual days after a Qatari personality and Trump met in Saudi Arabia as partial of a president’s new revisit to a Middle East.
The remarks on QNA were picked adult and reported by broadcasters in a region, including some in a United Arab Emirates.
They also caused a stir on amicable media in a Gulf, before Doha scrambled in a early hours of Wednesday morning to repudiate a claims.
Doha-based broadcaster Al Jazeera also reported that a QNA Twitter comment had been hacked and “fake” reports that Qatar was withdrawing ambassadors from several countries in a segment were subsequently denied.
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The communications bureau combined that a “State of Qatar will reason all those” who committed a crack accountable.
The conflict on Qatar’s central news group comes only days after Doha claimed it had been a plant of an orchestrated allegation debate over a purported “support” for terrorism.
Last weekend, Doha’s communications bureau expelled an central matter claiming a gas-rich emirate was being pounded by anti-Qatar organisations.
Doha has faced critique in some buliding for a support of insurgent groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In new weeks, Qatar has been indicted undisguised of apprehension appropriation in articles that have seemed in a American media.
Qatar is also home to a former personality of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, who progressing this month used his Doha base, where he has lived in outcast for several years, to launch a new process document.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1417754/qatar-says-state-news-agency-hacked/