The New York Times Video Twitter account posted a fake news tweet about Russia planning to launch a missile attack on the United States.
Two follow up tweets on the account — which has more than 259,000 followers — claimed to come from OurMine, a hacker group that has breached high-profile Twitter accounts for Marvel, Netflix and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
Another tweet claimed the Times tweet came from the same hacker who posted a fake announcement about Britney Spears’ death last month on the Sony Music account.
“We deleted a series of tweets published from this account earlier today without our authorization. We are investigating the situation,” the account wrote in a subsequent tweet.
According to reports from August 2016, hackers thought to be working for Russia broke into the email accounts of New York Times reporters earlier that year. The FBI investigated the reports.
source : NY daily news
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