Hackers Post Pro-Erdogan Messages in Attack on Twitter Accounts<br />By MARK SCOTT and MILAN SCHREUERMARCH 15, 2017<br />Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile news outlets, international brands<br />and politicians were hacked on Wednesday, briefly showing posts in support of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president who is in a bitter standoff with several European Union countries.<br />Over the weekend, the Dutch authorities stopped the Turkish foreign minister from landing in the Netherlands, where he was to attend a rally,<br />and they ordered the Turkish minister for families to be escorted out of the country, citing risks to public order and security.<br />"No additional accounts are impacted." On Tuesday, a separate attack affected two websites<br />set up to help voters choose among Dutch political parties in the general election.<br />The dispute involves several countries, including the Netherlands<br />and Germany, where Turkish politicians wish to hold rallies and campaign for a referendum on Turkey’s proposed Constitution.<br />Known as a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, which typically involves flooding computer servers with online<br />messages until they collapse, the attack took the Kieskompas and Stemwijzer sites offline on Tuesday afternoon.<br />Mr. Erdogan criticized the governments of Germany and the Netherlands, accusing them of Nazi practices,<br />after Turkish politicians were prevented from attending events in those countries.
