According to a recent disclosure by French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the AFP photo accounts on Twitter is currently suspended, after it was hacked on Tuesday at around 0345 AEDT.

The responsibility for the hack of one of AFP's Twitter accounts has been claimed, via a tweet, by the Syrian Electronic Army - the online activists who are backing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Going by the Syrian Electronic Army's claims on its website, the hacking activists are trying to defend the "Syrian Arab people" against campaigns led by the Arab and Western media, which it alleged had been "broadcasting fabricated news about what is happening in Syria."

Acknowledging the hacking of AFP's photo Twitter account, the news agency's deputy global news editor Pierre Celerier said that source of the attack is still unclear; and added that the non-AFP images which have been posted on the account appear to be the work of Syrian hackers.

Noting that the account is usually used for posting AFP photos from all across the world, Celerier further elaborated that the images that have been posted by the hackers are not AFP pictures; and that they seemingly comprise images which show pictures of Iraqi journalists killed in Syria, as well as the site of a car bombing.