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Hacked AP Twitter feed reporting fake White House attack rocks markets

Twitter account belonging to Associated Press was hacked and used to send bogus report falsely claiming that the White House had been bombed and President Obama was injured. Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points, or about 1 percent, immediately following the tweet. The Dow quickly regained the lost ground about seven minutes after the sell-off began, when the AP confirmed that the report was false. The tweet was sent from one of at least of two compromised Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press. Twitter has said it’s in the process of rolling out a new “two-factor authentication” service.”]

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/hacked-ap-twitter-feed-rocks-market-after-sending-false-news-flash/

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