Fake White House bomb hoax prompts Twitter account takeovers of AP accounts. The Associated Press account @AP reported Tuesday that Obama had been injured in the White House explosion. The tweet “briefly erased $200 billion of value” from U.S. stock markets on Tuesday, WSJ reported. A hacktivist group known as the Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for the AP accounts takeovers. Twitter is reportedly testing a two-factor authentication system internally and plans to roll it out incrementally.”]
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