Explosions in White House, panic over fake message
posted on Apr 24, 2013 8:16AM
A fake message that appears in Associated Press Council’s Twitter account on Tuesday -"Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured," created havoc world over. However, it was some handy work of some hackers, who hacks The AP Council social account and posted the fake message. The fake message is posted by a group of hackers which names themselves as "Syrian Electronic Army' and also leaves a message below stating-"Syrian Electronic Army was here."
Twitter is the first to react to message which immediately suspends the account @AP. AP Council also immediately removed the fake message and made a public statement clarifying the issue.
White House officials also condemned the message and declared President Obama is safe and no explosions take place inside the White House.
Journalists E Mc.Morris-Santoro, Buzz feed’s White House reporter, tweeted, "from here in the WH basement, this acct (AP) seems hacked."
Although, the fake message appears for a few minutes, it adversely affects on the US Stock Markets. Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost 130 points, or 0.9 percent, and the S&P has recorded a drop of 12 points.
AP Council officials’ states that probably it happens due to a phishing email message received by some of its employees.
In February this year, leading confectioner Burger King’s Twitter account was also hacked and fake message created havoc, which went like this- “The ‘Burger King’s company has been acquired by McDonald's.”