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AP account was hacked, alarms were raised

Posted On 24 Apr 2013
False Tweet

False Tweet

Hackers, whose  identity remain unknown , hacked on Tuesday  the Twitter account from Associated Press (AP) and sent a fake Tweet about two explosions in the White House which agitated the U.S. stock markets.

After the publication of the false tweets, AP Twitter account was suspended. The news organization said that the issuance of the text took place once hackers made repeated attempts to steal passwords from AP journalists

Paul Colford, AP spokesman, told Reuters that the message saying that President Barack Obama was injured was also false, however he gave no more details in this regard.

The false report caused the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones industrial to register a strong but brief decline on the New York Stock Exchange, but  it recovered later.

This hack  is the most recent, following a series of episodes that have involved media organizations, for example  last Saturday were compromised the accounts  of CBS “60 minutes” and “48 hours” news programs on social networks.

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