{"id":1125,"date":"2016-01-07T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/isis-executed-a-journalist-then-hacked-her-facebook-to-trick-her-friends\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T05:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:39:18","slug":"isis-executed-a-journalist-then-hacked-her-facebook-to-trick-her-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/isis-executed-a-journalist-then-hacked-her-facebook-to-trick-her-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS executed a journalist, then hacked her Facebook to trick her friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Syria-journalist\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA2LzA5L1N5cmlham91cm5hLmUzMDU0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/9fd2b7df\/8fa\/Syria-journalist.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=ISIS+executed+a+journalist%2C+then+hacked+her+Facebook+to+trick+her+friends&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F06%2Fisis-syria-journalist-facebook-hack%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F06%2Fisis-syria-journalist-facebook-hack%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Islamic State militants hacked the Facebook account of a female journalist they had executed, reportedly keeping her death a secret for months so they could pose as her to trap her friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS killed 30-year-old Ruqia Hassan in September, accusing her of spying for the Free Syrian Army, a moderate rebel group. But her death wasn&#8217;t confirmed until three months later<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/06\/children-of-isis-islamic-state\/\">How ISIS is using kids to further its cause<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>During that time, the ISIS militants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/ruqia-hassan-mohammed-the-activist-and-citizen-journalist-that-isis-murdered-and-then-posed-as-for-a6798111.html\">hacked<\/a> Hassan&#8217;s Facebook account to talk with her friends and gather information on other journalists and activists, according to <em>The Independent<\/em>. The Islamic State has claimed the Syrian city of Raqqa as its capital and had brutally gone after dissenters, publicly executing activists and anyone who resist their rule. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/06\/isis-syria-journalist-facebook-hack\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/journalist\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Journalist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/syria\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Syria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/isis\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Isis<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/us\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Us<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452115695' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452115695'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/i2YcTqQfb4c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State militants hacked the Facebook account of a female journalist they had executed, reportedly keeping her death a secret for months so they could pose as her to trap her friends and colleagues. ISIS killed 30-year-old Ruqia Hassan in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/07\/isis-executed-a-journalist-then-hacked-her-facebook-to-trick-her-friends\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,197,678,1,359,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-isis","category-journalist","category-other","category-syria","category-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}