Fox Says Hackers Hit Twitter Feed - Wall Street Journal

Fox News said hackers broke into one of its Twitter accounts early Monday morning, sending fake messages about President Barack Obama, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised government and corporate websites around the world.

The early morning tweets, posted on the "Fox News Politics" Twitter feed, claimed that President Obama had been assassinated while campaigning in a restaurant in Iowa. The hackers, who are thought to be part of a group called "the Script Kiddies," changed the account's password, preventing Fox from correcting the errant messages for hours, a person ...

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