Hackers turn Angry Birds into 'NSA Spying Birds' post snoop-op revelations

The official website of popular game, Angry Birds, had been reportedly hacked, two days after the US and UK spy agencies' snoop-op via 'leaky' mobile apps was reported.

The revelations came from the documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden and pointed that the NSA and its UK counterpart, GCHQ, allegedly used mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Angry Birds, etc. to pull out user data.

According to PC World, the hackers allegedly turned 'Angry Birds' into 'Spying Birds' with the game's characters sporting the NSA's official logo.

The secret documents revealed that the intelligence agencies used the gaming app that contained certain code to pull out people's virtual profiles and extract user data from it.

The report said that the website's defacement appears to be the result of a DNS (Domain Name System) attack where the site's name servers were swapped with others under the attackers' control.

Vice President of marketing communications at Rovio Entertainment, Saara Bergstrom, said that the defacement was caught in minutes and corrected immediately, adding that no end user data was compromised in the attack that affected only some users.

Following the revelations, Rovio had given a statement denying that it collaborates or shares data with any government spy agencies, the report added.