Hacked A.P. Twitter Kun-Mao Chao ( 趙趙趙 ) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan A note given in BCC class on April 24, 2013
Jan 06, 2016
Hacked A.P. Twitter
Kun-Mao Chao (趙坤茂 )Department of Computer Science and
Information EngineeringNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
A note given in BCC class on April 24, 2013
A False Alarm
2Source: AP; The New York Times 4/23/2013
A Hacked Account
• The Twitter account of The Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday and erroneously sent out a message saying there had been explosions at the White House, injuring President Obama.
• Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing that the account had been hacked.
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Clarification
• Jay Carney, Mr. Obama’s press secretary, confirmed that the president was unharmed.
• Editors at The A.P. soon followed with a statement saying that “The @AP twitter account has been hacked. The tweet about an attack at the White House is false. We will advise more as soon as possible.”
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted!
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 150 points when the news broke on Twitter — an indicator of traders’ presence on the social media platform — before immediately recouping the losses after it became clear that there had been no attack at the White House.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted!
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