The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking some of CNN's social media accounts. The group has claimed that the compromised accounts include CNN's main Facebook account, CNN Politics' Facebook account, Twitter pages for CNN and CNN's Security Clearence. Furthermore, Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also reported to be hacked. "The posts were deleted within minutes and the accounts have been secured," adds CNN in a story on its website.

There was a post on CNN's Twitter account that read, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here...Stop lying... All your reports are fake!" Another post posted on Thursday night on a Twitter account supposedly linked to the group read that their reason for retaliating was for "viciously lying reporting aimed at prolonging the suffering in Syria."

Reports earlier this month mentioned that the same group had also hacked Microsoft's Twitter News account. That made it the second instance where Microsoft's accounts were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Earlier the group had hacked Microsoft's Xbox Twitter account, Skype's Twitter and Facebook accounts on New Year Eve's. Microsoft, which owns Skype, had to issue a warning to discourage people from using Microsoft emails following the New Year's Day hack.