Al Jazeera‘s mobile news service hacked

Al Jazeera news network's mobile service was hacked today, as per a report by AFP. This development comes barely a week after a number of its websites were hacked by Syria’s Assad loyalists, it reported on its website al-jazeera.net. "The story claiming that the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem) has been the target of an assassination attempt in the royal palace is completely false and was a result of hacking of the service," Al Jazeera stated. According to the AFP report, the news channel said the claim was among three false texts sent via its mobile service "which has been hacked." According to posts on various social networks, including Twitter, Al-Jazeera's mobile service today stated that Sheikh Hamad was the target of an attack on his palace in Doha and that the wife of the emir, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, was lightly wounded. The news network said last week that a number of its websites were apparently hacked by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel's support for the "armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news". Click here for full story