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Subject: [ISN] Hacked AP Twitter feed reporting fake White House attack rocks markets
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-04-24 8:24:20
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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/hacked-ap-twitter-feed-rocks-market-after-sending-false-news-flash/
By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
Apr 23 2013
Stock prices plunged and then quickly recovered after a Twitter account
belonging to the Associated Press was hacked and used to send a bogus report
falsely claiming that the White House had been bombed and President Obama was
injured.
"The @AP Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked," an unaffected
Twitter account belonging to the news organization confirmed. "The tweet about
an attack on the White House was false."
In a testament to the power that social media has on real-world finances, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 150 points, or about 1 percent, immediately
following the tweet, with other indexes reacting similarly. 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 bogus tweet was sent from one of at least of two compromised Twitter
accounts belonging to the Associated Press. Mike Baker, a reporter with the
167-year-old news organization, said the AP's mobile Twitter account was
compromised as well. "The @AP hack came less than an hour after some of us
received an impressively disguised phishing email," he wrote in a separate
Twitter dispatch. In recent days security personnel with the news cooperative
discovered malware had infected some of its computers, officials told the New
York Times.
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