Singapore movie actor disses Anonymous, gets hacked on Twitter

For all the bluster about waging war on the Singapore government, November 5 — designated a global protest day by hacker collective Anonymous — was rather uneventful in Singapore.

While marches were held in the Philippines, Australia, and the United States, Anonymous Singapore mostly kept a low profile yesterday. Except for one small incident.

It turned out that the social media accounts for Ridhwan Azman, a Singaporean movie actor well known for his role in Ah Boys to Men and also for hitting his girlfriend, may have been hacked. He’s apparently still in control of his private Twitter account though.

And the reason for the intrusion? He had been talking smack to Anonymous on Twitter:

What happened next set the Twittersphere aflame. Azman’s Twitter account was apparently compromised by Anonymous, who used to post a series of tweets.

One tweet led to a video that was uploaded on Ridhwan’s YouTube channel, which seems to have been hacked as well. The video, addressed at the actor, gave this warning:

We have seen that you have been dissing the legion. Also, claiming that we are a joke, in all attempts to trend such is now nothing but inactive accounts. What you thought was a joke is now real.

Another tweet led to a message addressed to Singapore citizens which purportedly explained why Anonymous didn’t organize any large-scale movements on November 5.

The letter expressed support for the Messiah, a hacker who claimed responsibility for the threat of war and for hacking a few websites belonging to government entities. He also told Yahoo Singapore that Anonymous was responsible for the outage of dozens of government websites, directly contradicting the government’s stand.