An official Twitter account belonging to the political team at Fox News has been compromised and fallen into the hands of hackers who have posted false stories claiming that Barack Obama has been assassinated.
The messages were posted at approximately 2am local time, and were quickly retweeted across the network.
Messages posted to the @FoxNewsPolitics account included:
BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It’s a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP
and
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 rogue tweets seem to have begun after a message was posted on the FoxNewsPolitics account saying “Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th”.
That message implies that whoever hacked into the account compromised the email address of the person…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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