Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Reports Obama's Assassination

[win7holic]

The FOX News Politics Twitter account has been hijacked and used to post fake reports about president Obama being assassinated.

The attack began around two hours ago with a message from the hacker that ironically said: "Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th."

Soon afterwards, the first Obama announcement was posted claiming that "@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead."

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In the tweets that followed, the person controlling the Fox account claimed the president was shot two times, in the lower pelvic area and in the neck, while campaigning at a restaurant in Iowa.


"We wish @joebiden the best of luck as our new President of the United States. In such a time of madness, there's light at the end of tunnel," the hijacker tweeted.

The compromised @foxnewspolitics account bears the verified by Twitter mark. It has around 33,500 followers and is included on nearly 2000 watch lists.

The messages stopped within an hour. It's not clear if Fox regained access over the account, but the rogue posts haven't been removed and there's been no statement from the network regarding the incident.


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[Vextor]

I know, I heard about. If companies such as Fox can let this happen, no wonder the security is getting worse and worse. Especially with the verified Twitter badge.

 

[Jack]

A newly created group of hackers called " The Script Kiddies" claim the responsibility for this attack.

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Think Magazine, a campus publication from Stony Brook University, scored an interview with the attackers:

“[I would consider us to be close in relation [to Anonymous], 2 of the members of our group were members of Anonymous,” said a representative of The Script Kiddies, who, for reasons that should be quite clear, asked to remain, yes, anonymous. “I was a member of Anonymous. We hope to be working with them soon.”

We are looking to find information about corporations to assist with antisec. Fox News was selected because we figured their security would be just as much of a joke as their reporting. It will be a never ending battle

The names change from time to time like LulzSec and Anonymous or Script Kiddies. But [there] will always be a group of people that need to stand up for everyone else and attempt to keep the government in balance with it’s people. Without groups like Anonymous, what is there to prevent corruption?

Fox News released a statement confirming the hacking and saying that "the hacking is being investigated, and FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false tweets may have created." link