![]() ![]() “It’s easy to look at a compromised Facebook page and think that it’s no big deal,” said Jake Williams, co-founder and CTO at BreachQuest. ![]() Navy lost control of the page and could do nothing but watch (literally) as unauthorized people posted unauthorized content. ![]() Obvious humor value aside, there are serious security concerns underlying the incident, researchers pointed out. In an update on Thursday, she said, “access has been secured by Facebook, and once their procedures are complete we’ll regain access to the page.” However, the page is still not recovered as of press time (4:15 p.m. “USS Kidd‘s Facebook page had an unauthorized access from an unknown entity.” Nicole Schwegman, a Navy spokesperson, confirmed to Task & Purpose on Tuesday. The posts garnered tens of thousands of views and hundreds of amused comments, including thoughts on the ship’s gaming prowess (i.e., “this guy is awesome but can’t get out of the Stone Age”).Īnd indeed, it never did progress – not great for a ship whose motto is “On to Victory.”įor its part, the Navy admitted the attack: “The official Facebook page for USS Kidd (DDG 100) was hacked,” Cmdr. One person commented on the post, “Just in time for Cyber Awareness month.”Īnother five livestreams of the game followed before the posts stopped the next day, on Oct. The hijacked page of the warship, which finished up its latest active deployment in late September, then posted a joyful “Hahahahaha” and commenced four hours of live Age of Empires action. The incident was first reported by military news specialist Task & Purpose, which said that the USS Kidd‘s page was officially taken over at 10:26 p.m. The pranksters have also changed the page type listing in the “About” information to “Gaming Video Creator.” In the USS Kidd incident, practical jokers have anthropomorphized the warship, so that it appears to be having a great time playing the addictive game: Players “build, settle, trade and fight” their way from the Stone Age into the future, reaching certain milestones (inventing the wheel, ending feudalism) along the way. The official Facebook page of a destroyer-class Navy warship, the USS Kidd, has gone rogue: Someone has taken over the page in order to…stream Age of Empires play.Īge of Empires is a real-time online multiplayer strategy game in which the objective is to advance one’s civilization. ![]()
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