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"British broadcaster Sky, synonymous for its wide-ranging sports coverage and news service, scored an own goal last week when it was forced to remove its Android apps from Google Play on account of them being compromised. Now, less than a week later, the apps are back in the store as usual.\r\nAll our Android apps, which we removed from the Google Play last weekend, are now available to download! More at: j.mp/Sky_Android :)\r\n\r\n\u2014 Sky Help Team (@SkyHelpTeam) May 31, 2013\r\nThe Sky+ and Sky News Android apps were affected, alongside Sky Go, Sky Wifi, Sky Movies, and Sky Sports News apps too.\u00A0The\u00A0apps were believed to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that have compromised a range of sites and services from top media firms as part of their efforts to support the Syrian regime.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s not known how the group managed to update the programs from inside the Google Play store. However, all screenshots in the app were replaced with images from the hacking group.\u00A0In addition, the group also modified the developer website link on all of BSkyB\u2019s apps so that it pointed to their page.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Syrian Electronic Army has previously attacked the\u00A0website and Twitter accounts\u00A0of the Financial Times, leaving articles with the headline \u201CHacked by the Syrian Electronic Army\u201D on its technology blog. It has also laid siege to\u00A0BBC Twitter accounts, the\u00A0National Public Radio service,\u00A0the Guardian newspaper, and the Associated Press.\r\n\r\nPhoto credit: Sky News image via\u00A0Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images,\u00A0Screenshot of Sky News Android app via Google Play, Syrian Electronic Army screen hack via\u00A0Matthew Keys/The Desk"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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