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    Hackers tweet ‘Obama assassinated’ on Fox News account

    A group of hackers targeted a Fox News Twitter account early Monday morning and posted a series of false updates declaring that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

    It is reported that the hackers behind the Twitter attack have now claimed responsibility.

    ‘Scriptkiddies’ took control of @foxnewspolitics - a bona fide account of the US news service with 33,000 people following it - at the beginning of 4 July, which is a public holiday in the US for Independence Day.

    People following Fox’s politics feed account would have seen the shocking hoax posts that claimed the President was dead appearing from 2.43am EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), with hundreds of them forwarding this on to their followers.
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    Fox News politics’ account had been inactive for three days before the group initiated the hijack posting “regained full access to our Twitter account”.

    The hackers then continued: “Barack Obama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead.”

    Obama’s fake death is then explained by the hackers in more detail, including when, where and how he allegedly died.

    The seventh and final tweet wished vice president Joe Biden the best of luck as the country’s new president.

    At the time of writing the tweets about the US President remain on the feed. Fox News was unavailable for comment in time for publication.

     

    75 comments

    • Robert  •  10 months ago
      Funny how hackers used fox news to say this , something fox news would probally say eny way without it being hacked. lol
      • ANTON 10 months ago
        FFS come on, who in their right minds would believe any news item
        with the Fox News Logo on it,
        oh,,,hang on,,,, Facebook and Twitter,,,,,,oh yeah, that's right,,,forgot.
      • Chris 10 months ago
        Fox News is owned by GWB and co loosly speaking so that is why there is bad spelling, no grammar, words that do not exist, and do not forget how the great idiot himself was reading a book UP SIDE DOWN when they told him about the T o w e r s etc??????????
      • ANTON 10 months ago
        There's an old GWB saying:
        " Fool me once, shame on you. Ye fool me, ye can't get fooled again "
        He must have picked that up from a Fox News Report.
    • Steven  •  10 months ago
      Wait are we sure that this isn't Fox news being well just fox news
      • Alan 10 months ago
        FOX already reported him dead due to a freudian slip when Bin Laden was killed. This is the hacker types taking the piss.
      • Alan 10 months ago
        FOX already reported him dead due to a freudian slip when Bin Laden was killed. This is the hacker types taking the piss.
    • Mickfree  •  10 months ago
      Wow, what surprises me about the story is that there are 33,000 dimwits who follow a fox politics posting on twitter and think that what they read is anything but drivel.
      • Alan 10 months ago
        They're Americans.
      • Alan 10 months ago
        They're Americans.
    • STEVEN  •  10 months ago
      the worst part is, some of the people who actually watch Fox "news" would be glad if this was true....
      • Jay S 10 months ago
        i know i would
      • Alan 10 months ago
        I can just see your reaction to his election:

        'Yee-haw! Git ma shotgun, maw! They's gone done put a coon in the whitehouse!'

        Bloody rednecks.
      • Jay S 10 months ago
        i know i would
    • nsikub  •  10 months ago
      Isn't this Fox's own stunt?
    • Changemename  •  10 months ago
      Whether he lives or dies makes little difference. The President is not the one who runs the USA - they are but a puppet of the big businesses and the zionist agenda.
      • ANTON 10 months ago
        .....and don't forget " The Matrix ".
      • Loki 10 months ago
        yea,just look at who paid in the biggest donations in his election run up,the pro israel lobby was the biggest contributer.
      • panchog 10 months ago
        Are you stupid? Big business? He's a democrat who is trying to get public health care. Thats the opposite of capitalism. Obviously the president makes big decisions and decides many things about a country
    • Mysterious  •  10 months ago
      It just shows once again that you can't believe everything you hear or read.
    • S.  •  10 months ago
      It's sick considering he's got kids who could have read that and thought their dad was dead.
    • P  •  10 months ago
      Hes just a puppet who would notice if he got shot?
    • Regan  •  10 months ago
      For all those of you wishing Obama dead, I prophesy that you will all die before him. I prophesy that he will see the end of al-Qaeda. I prophesy that he would be re-elected as the President of the United States of America. I prophesy that he will not only complete his second term, he would lead America out of the depression into prosperity and move ahead to become a statesman.
    • Donna  •  10 months ago
      Most useless President to have ever graced the Whitehouse.

      Doubt he'd be sorely missed if it had been true.
    • alex  •  10 months ago
      Saw the headlines and got excited, but then let down yet again..... What a poor excuse for a leader as he is the laughing stock of the world.
    • Tomas  •  10 months ago
      granted a horrible thing to post after hacking, but no one can deny that these guys are talented. We need them on the right side of the law.
    • anonymous  •  10 months ago
      he isnt white so not many would care as much already some white americans want him dead - it just goes to show how racist white people are they dont even like their current president just because they dont like his color of skin and his name.
    • Mark  •  10 months ago
      over here across the pond we heard that obama bin laden was indeed dead killed by the ku klux klan and that now its his doppleganger taking over
    • DAVE LINGARD  •  10 months ago
      Apart from one or two you who have commented, You really are a sick bunch. Have you nothing better to do that sait at your computers and slag people off. Get a life you morons.
    • MH  •  10 months ago
      I wonder how many people started celebrating before they realised it was a hoax.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 months ago
      and it's stiill said and ppl still believe computers and infomation on them is safe
    • Joseph  •  10 months ago
      There is a saying "The dogs bark but the caravan moves on".
    • money-grubbing war crimin ...  •  10 months ago
      He might as well be dead - the useless black pudding. All the lazy @#$% does in play golf and go on holiday and, like a typical black, when he needs money he thieves it, or prints it. The black has printed over $2 trillion.

      Remember all the fake love for Tiger Woods and media spin, until the truth came out that the black was a depraved fornicating animal.
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