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Fox News Twitter account announces Barack Obama dead after hack

04

Jul

2011

An official Twitter account belonging to the political team at Fox News has been compromised and fallen into the hands of hackers who have posted false stories claiming that Barack Obama has been assassinated. The messages were posted at approximately 2am local time, and were quickly retweeted across the network. Messages posted to the @FoxNewsPolitics […]

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Hackers steal, publish Fox employee passwords

16

May

2011

A group of attackers who clearly have it in for Fox Broadcasting have managed to access a company server with hundreds of their employees’ email usernames and passwords. Then they published the collected information on the Internet and invited people to use it to “ravage” online accounts that have the same login credentials: […]

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Hackers steal Fox TV passwords, deface Twitter and LinkedIn pages

13

May

2011

A group of hackers calling themselves Lulz Security have gained access to a server belonging to the Fox Broadcasting network, and published details of hundreds of employees usernames and passwords on the net.The hackers, who claim to have also been responsible for stealing personal information about X Factor contestants from the TV network earlier this […]

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