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Fox News Twitter feed says Obama dead in apparent hack - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- Hackers apparently broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news early Monday and used it to announce -- falsely -- that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Obama was "shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa while campaigning. RIP Obama, best regards to the Obama family," read one of several Twitter messages posted on @FoxNewsPolitics early Monday.

"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 last in the series of tweets said later.

An article on FoxNews.com confirmed the hack.

 

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A student journalist interviewed someone claiming to be a representative of the hackers shortly before the Obama tweets were posted.

Adam Peck of the University of Stony Brook's Think magazine reported that the hackers, calling themselves the Script Kiddies, were an offshoot of the hacker group Anonymous.

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Reply#1 - Mon Jul 4, 2011 11:39 AM EDT
Conservative Conspirator

This is not funny.

  • 3 votes
#1.1 - Mon Jul 4, 2011 12:15 PM EDT
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Starseeker

Is it any wonder that these things happen? There has never been anything preventing this from happening save a persons own sense of right and wrong. That we have lost this is testament to the decay of society not the lack of laws or enforcement. You cannot legislate morality any more than you can legislate the wind. When all forms of societal decay are eradicated a respectful discourse can resume until then there is no telling where we may go.

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Reply#2 - Mon Jul 4, 2011 12:18 PM EDT
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