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Yet another news org gets hacked:
Two AP accounts quickly tweeted that the tweet was fake, and on its Facebook page, AP asked people to “not respond to news posted [on its Twitter account] in the last 20 minutes.”
That is a bogus @ap tweet.
— AP CorpComm (@AP_CorpComm) April 23, 2013
The @ap Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked. The tweet about an attack on the White House was false.
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) April 23, 2013
The @ap Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked. The tweet about an attack on the White House was false.
— AP CorpComm (@AP_CorpComm) April 23, 2013
Advisory: @ap Twitter account has been hacked. Tweet about an attack at the White House is false. We will advise more as soon as possible.
— AP CorpComm (@AP_CorpComm) April 23, 2013
The Dow plunged after the tweet, then recovered quickly. “It makes you wonder if there isn’t a profit-making opportunity out there in the realm of Twitter hacks,” Matthew Yglesias writes.
The Syrian Electronic Army, which took credit for a recent hack of NPR’s website, has claimed credit for this attack:
Ops! @ap get owned by Syrian Electronic Army! #SEA #Syria #ByeByeObama twitter.com/Official_SEA6/…
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA6) April 23, 2013
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