London: Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out an erroneous tweet about an attack at the White House. The tweet said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured. The attack on AP's Twitter account and AP Mobile Twitter account was preceded by a phishing attempt on AP's corporate network.
The AP confirmed that its Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue.
The tweet put out by hackers briefly sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average sharply lower.
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11:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Police arrested a man on Thursday for hacking his wife and two children to death in Garbada area of the district. ...
04:07 AM, Mar 29, 2013
A website in the US has posted crucial personal details of celebrities like Hillary Clinton and Tiger Woods, which include their financial detail, credit card debt and mortgage information. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A pregnant woman, wife of a Delhi Police constable, was allegedly hanged to death by her husband and in-laws over dowry demand, police said on Saturday. ...
12:40 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The computers of highly-sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have reportedly been hacked. The hacking is suspected to have been carried out by Chinese hackers and there are fears that some sensitive information could have been compromised. ...
05:47 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The government has ordered a probe into reports that Chinese hackers targeted sensitive government files. Hundreds of sites are among those said to have been hacked. The DRDO though denied any of its sites were targeted. ...
04:05 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A Dalit engineering student, recently booked in an eve teasing case, was on Thursday night hacked to death by a gang near Tirunelveli, police said. ...
02:23 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Facebook didn't identify a suspected origin of its hacking incident, but provided a few details about how it apparently happened. ...
11:35 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Over 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this year, an increase of nearly 57 per cent from 2009. ...
11:13 AM, Dec 17, 2012
State-owned telecom firm BSNL's Website was hacked on Friday by a group that demanded withdrawal of section 66 A of the IT Act. The Website 'www.bsnl.co.in' was quickly restored. ...
01:28 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 21-year-old youth was hacked to death by a gang at Nedumcaud near Karamana in the wee hours of Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Saji from Thirumala. The youth was first seen lying injured near Nedumcaud school by a newspaper boy, who informed the matter to the Karamana police. The police first thought that the youth was inebriated. But when they arrived on the spot, they found that...
04:29 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Dubai: The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked on Tuesday by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel's support for the "armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news". A Syrian flag and statement denouncing Al Jazeera's "positions against the Syrian people and government" were posted on the Arabic site of the channel in response to its coverage of the...
01:39 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Jhargram: A youth was hacked to death allegedly by his uncle on Thursday evening during a quarrel over farm land at Jhargram in West Midnapore district. The police said 22-year-old Ramu Mohapatra was killed by his uncle Kartik Mohapatra during a quarrel in their residence at Paper Mill More. Ramu died on the spot after he was beaten up by bamboo pole and hacked to death, the police said. Kartik...
12:20 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New York: The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said on Wednesday. "Reuters did not report the false story and the post was immediately deleted. We are working to address the problem," Barb Burg, director of global communications at Reuters News, said in...
11:49 PM, Aug 15, 2012
San Francisco:Fighting back Other security experts say a more aggressive posture is unlikely to have a significant impact in the near term in the overall fight against cybercriminals and Internet espionage. Veteran government and private officials warn that much of the activity is too risky to make sense, citing the chances for escalation and collateral damage. "There is no business case for it and no possible positive outcome," said John...
03:37 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Mainpuri: A 55-year-old woman was on Monday hacked to death allegedly by her son after a quarrel over serving food in Kurawali area. Upset with delay in serving food, Kashmir Singh (32), who police claimed was mentally challenged, attacked his mother Narayani Devi with a spade and killed her in Tiwanpura village this afternoon, they said. Singh escaped from the spot after the killing. ...
04:41 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: A total of 112 government websites belonging to various state government agencies, Planning Commission and Finance Ministry were hacked in the three-month period ending February 2012, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. "During the period December 2011 to February 2012, a total number of 112 government websites were hacked," Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. These hacked...
09:33 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Los Angeles: Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have slammed rumors that the actress' phone was hacked recently and sexually explicit texts, photos and emails swapped between the two were found. A bevy of shocking photos was reportedly discovered, including one of the actress in the bathtub and another of Timberlake with women's underwear on his head. But representatives for the 'Friends with Benefits' costars say the stories are "entirely false",...
12:55 PM, Sep 20, 2011
London: Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death. The hackers redirected visitors to the Twitter feed of hacker group Lulz Security, which came to prominence after several cyber assaults on the websites of Sony Corp, the CIA, and News Corp's Fox TV. "We have owned Sun/News of the World," LulzSec...
07:22 AM, Jul 19, 2011
Paris: A hacker took over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook account and issued a fake message that he would not run for re-election in 2012, media reports said Monday. "Taking into account exceptional circumstances facing our country, I decided in my soul and conscience not to represent myself after my first term in 2012," the message read. Before the president's office managed to erase the fake information and reclaim the...
02:06 PM, Jan 25, 2011
