After Obama’s tweeted as shot dead on FOXNews hacked account, web security and government
officials face crises.
By Chido Nwangwu. http://twitter.com/chido247
Special to USAfrica, Houston
Web security, policy and technology experts, according to USAfricaonline.com contacts, are very worried by the increasing hostile and fraudulent manipulation and hacking of web sites. Washington DC and other major capitals of the world were in a brief information security crisis a few hours ago.
The reason? In a bizarre turn, one of the Twitter accounts of FOX News channel, the pro-Republican tv network, was hacked around 2 hours past midnight Eastern Time/USA, sent out repeated tweets that its chief target of criticisms, U.S President Barack Obama had been assassinated. The misleading report claimed: “@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead.”
A few minutes later, they gave the story a trending/developing context, claiming too that Obama was “shot twice in the lower pelvic area and in the neck.” Shortly after, they added it wase “at a Ross’ restaurant in Iowa while campaigning.”
Evidently, FOX News was hacked by a person or group calling itself “The Script Kiddies.”The hackers sought, further, to mislead people when they added these words: “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.”
After retreating the report several thousands of times, the vicious claim remained on @foxnewspolitics, one of FOX’s Twitter accounts, until 6:30 a.m ET. USAfricaonline.com is aware that the real FOX News has released a statement confirming the hack attack especially the claims about Obama as “malicious and false.” You may view some of USAfrica Publisher’s tweets http://twitter.com/chido247. Chido’s Facebook account is http://www.facebook.com/usafricachido
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