Angry Birds Site Hacked, Firm Points to Wider Issue

After revelations that a popular internet game, Angry Birds, was used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and UK’s GCHQ to download a spy application on user computers, the web site was summarily hacked and defaced.  Last night a hacker placed an NSA logo on the Bird’s head and replaced the name of the game with the title “Spying Birds.” Angry Birds used for spying The revelation that the Angry Bird’s game was being used as a spy apparatus was first revealed in documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.  When the information was released, it caused a firestorm among…