[wmhardware]

Hacked Fox tweets claim 'Obama dead'
Hacked Fox tweets claim 'Obama dead' - Americas - Al Jazeera English
A FoxNews.com Twitter account was hacked briefly on Monday and six false tweets, saying that US President Barack Obama had been shot dead, were sent.

In a statement posted on its website later on Monday morning, Fox News called the tweets "malicious" and "false".

The media outlet, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said it was investigating the hacking and had alerted the US Secret Service. Fox may need to have a chat with their IT director.

I'd love to see the reaction of people who bought this.

[investor]

Hacked Fox tweets claim 'Obama dead'
Hacked Fox tweets claim 'Obama dead' - Americas - Al Jazeera English

Fox may need to have a chat with their IT director.

I'd love to see the reaction of people who bought this.

It is more likely that Fox will soon announce that the culprit is a Jon Stewart staffer.

[gusecrync]

Then a picture of Rupert Murdoch's junk was sent to Katie Couric

[bitymnmictada]

It is more likely that Fox will soon announce that the culprit is a Jon Stewart staffer.

The secret service is investigating. They'll say who the culprit was.

[MinisuipGaicai]

Yeah the USSS will get to the bottom of this real fast, whoever is responsible will almost certainly be facing quite a long time in the big house.

[bitymnmictada]

Yeah the USSS will get to the bottom of this real fast, whoever is responsible will almost certainly be facing quite a long time in the big house.

They could just get slapped on the wrist.

[Licacivelip]

Yeah the USSS will get to the bottom of this real fast, whoever is responsible will almost certainly be facing quite a long time in the big house.

I imagine, once it's shown that their only intention was to mess with Fox, they'll just get some kind of fine or something. I don't know what the legal ramifications are for hacking an account that doesn't involve secrets or someone's financial security.

[repldoinfo]

Yeah the USSS will get to the bottom of this real fast, whoever is responsible will almost certainly be facing quite a long time in the big house.

I don't know about that. Don't a lot of hackers pride themselves in being able to cover their tracks and remain anonymous?

[Kryfamid]

Funny topic on a forum where 95% of the membership refers to usama bin laden as Osama. Just sayin'

[OWV9LSxH]

I don't know about that. Don't a lot of hackers pride themselves in being able to cover their tracks and remain anonymous?

That's the thing, it seems that hackers have a bit of a leg up on law enforcement, with far more of them getting away with the crime than getting caught. Sure, you'll see headlines about hackers getting busted here and there, but they're such a tiny portion of the folks doing these things that it doesn't make much difference. It's just for show.

Heck, Lulzsec formed, attacked a bunch of sites for a few months, then got bored and disbanded. Doesn't exactly put confidence in law enforcement's ability to fight these guys.

[bitymnmictada]

I imagine, once it's shown that their only intention was to mess with Fox, they'll just get some kind of fine or something. I don't know what the legal ramifications are for hacking an account that doesn't involve secrets or someone's financial security.

Talking about the president being dead and spreading false information in regards to national security may be considered more then the intention to mess with Fox.

[MinisuipGaicai]

Yeah and that's where they're gonna get stung, not to mention the time and resources of the USSS and Court costs they'll have to cover plus the fine and loss of services in VOS of whomever is their service provider. The Service provider will likely get in trouble as well if they were determined to be complicit in nature.

[Licacivelip]

I'd imagine the reason most hackers never get caught is that there are a lot of them and they mostly just cause some irritation so there's not that much of a force pursuing them.

[MinisuipGaicai]

Well, the charges could potentially carry 25 years in prison just at the Federal level alone, so most of them tend not to do it within the US, and that's not inclusive of any mail/wire fraud or state charges etc. Likely they wouldnt get stung with the lot, but i'm pretty sure we'll see an example made out of whoever was responsible for this.

[Talicoabilk]

I imagine, once it's shown that their only intention was to mess with Fox, they'll just get some kind of fine or something. I don't know what the legal ramifications are for hacking an account that doesn't involve secrets or someone's financial security.

If, and its a big if, the hacker[s] can be identified and are within US jurisdiction they could be facing very serious federal charges. I would bet they would try to make a case of conspiracy.

But don't hold your breath on them being identified.