Facebook foul play: Cyber-criminal floods Thai government pages with explicit content

[webfact]

Photo via Matichon, KhaoSod, and Facebook/ รมว.ชัยวุฒิ ธนาคมานุสรณ์

 

An unidentified cyber-criminal hacked several official Facebook pages belonging to Thai government agencies and flooded them with explicit videos and pictures. The Minister of Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry, Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, admitted that he could not solve the issue in time and urged the new government to take action.

 

One of the affected pages, the Bangkok Provincial Education Office, created a new Facebook page after the old one was hacked and flooded with pornography and TikTok clips of sexy women dancing. On the new Facebook page, the department reported…

 

“Dear followers, the former Facebook page of the Bangkok Provincial Education Office was hacked by an unidentified person with malicious intentions. The department is now working to solve the issue. Please note that all messages and other content posted on the former page were unauthorized and not endorsed by our department.”

The Facebook page with the issue has been closed. However, the Bangkok Provincial Education Office was not the sole target of this cybercrime wave. Various other government agencies’ official Facebook pages were also hacked. For example, the Bangkok Planetarium, Baan Phaeo District Office, and the Army Radio.

 

by Petch Petpailin

 

Photo via Matichon, KhaoSod, and Facebook/ รมว.ชัยวุฒิ ธนาคมานุสรณ์

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/facebook-foul-play-cyber-criminal-floods-thai-government-pages-with-explicit-content

 

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[keith101]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

urged the new government to take action

How there is no Prime Minister or House Speaker and dont know if they have even been sworn in yet .

[ezzra]

How do you get on the list of being sent explicit videos and pictures? wouldn't mined few myself.

[ThailandRyan]

Seems like I remember that happening on a P's phone while he was in Parliament, oh wait he was looking at the explicit websites himself on a State owned phone.....Seems that nothing is safe from hacker.

[n00dle]

22 minutes ago, keith101 said:

How there is no Prime Minister or House Speaker and dont know if they have even been sworn in yet .

exactly.

[brucegoniners]

That's rich.

[Burma Bill]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Facebook pages were also hacked. For example, the Bangkok Planetarium................................

Well I never - porn stars!!

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, admitted that he could not solve the issue in time and urged the new government to take action.

Which will be when exactly?

[RichardColeman]

I'm sure the parliamentarians watch worse on their phones during long waffle speeches

[Tarteso]

Key & Password of the web, please? I need to check some information about Education‘s Courses. ????

[PETERTHEEATER]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

.........and TikTok clips of sexy women dancing.........

Who decided the dancers were 'sexy'?

[cncltd1973]

couldn't fix it in time? more like couldn't fix it and gave up since the new gov't is months away, if at all

[cncltd1973]

55 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I'm sure the parliamentarians watch worse on their phones during long waffle speeches

maybe that's why they are leaving it for the next government to fix, free porn for them to "officially" watch for the rest of their tenure!

[anterian]

Clearly retaliation for blocking access to pornhub.com 

 

[digger70]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Ministry, Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, admitted that he could not solve the issue in time and urged the new government to take action

What new Government, When and  Who will that Be,