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American rapper Soulja Boy is the latest celebrity to become the victim of hackers. It appears that both his Twitter and YouTube accounts have been taken over by supporters of the famous UGNazi collective. While the Twitter account seems to have been regained by the artist, his YouTube account still bears the marks of the hack. However, the video – which has been viewed over 20 million times – is not entitled “Hip Hop dance” (or whatever its original name was), but “Crank That UGNazi (twitter.com/ug).” Furthermore, the details section of the video reads: Follow: twitter.com/ug #UGNazi #freecosmo #freejoshthegod #freeshmoop #joshthegod #cosmothegod #keepsabu.” The tweets appear to have been removed from Soulja Boy’s account, but the rapper hasn’t mentioned anything about the breach.  This isn’t the first time when Soulja Boy’s social media accounts are hacked. In the past, hackers overtook both his Facebook and Twitter accounts.

CyberZeist , the hacker who has recently left the UGNazi collective, has leaked a few hundred login credentials that he allegedly obtained by launching a spear phishing attack on US   federal employees.   “This federal account release is not a result of some fancy and HiFi hack, it’s a result of a common flaw in human factor – Trust. These all federal accounts were jacked by using a simple method known as 'Spear Phishing'! These accounts are just a half part of a forthcoming #gov #leak,” he wrote next to the data dump. The leak contains over 250 record sets comprising email addresses and clear text passwords. According to the hacker, he obtained the credentials by spoofing a login portal. “They have a login portal at [.mil domain] (intranet only). Their SSLv2 certificate can be spoofed easily so I replaced the original certificate with my fake one so that users can’t make out that they are logging at a fake portal,” the hacker told Softpedia. “In my f...