The Twitter account of the New York Post and the United Press
International (UPI) have been hack , following by the Sony hack which hackers
issued various confidential data, according to Digital
Marketing Agency. Hackers released fake
tweets on economic and military news, after The Pope quoted on UPI’s Twitter mentioned
that “World War III has begun”.
However,
contrary to what the Pope said, the New York Post’s account said that
“hostilities ha broken out between the United States and China.
According to the statement, six fake headlines had been
posted on its account. One of those fake stories was: “USS George Washington,
an aircraft carrier, was "engaged in active combat" against Chinese warships
in the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, A Pentagon official said the above statement
about the hostilities with China was not true. Currently, the New York Post
told that it had sought to find the hackers.
Noted as well, besides New York Post, over the past two year,
a range of media organizations namely AFP and BBC also experienced cyber-attack
as well.
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