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Hacked AP tweets explosions at White House injures President Obama causing DOW Jones to plunge 100 points
By NINA GOLGOWSKI
PUBLISHED: 17:51 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 18:39 GMT, 23 April 2013
A terrifying report of explosions at the White House injuring President Obama caused the DOW Jones Industrial average to plunge 100 points after the Associated Press' Twitter account was allegedly hacked.
'Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,' the news agency Tweeted just after 1pm on Tuesday.
The White House and AP quickly assured the public that the report was not true but word didn't appear to come fast enough to those frantically responding on Wall Street.
Hacked: This terrifying report of explosions at the White House injuring President Obama has been deemed false after the Associated Press said they had been hacked
Plunge: Immediately after the false Twitter report the DOW Jones Industrial average plunged 100 points before going back up again following reassurances from both the AP and the White House
In a graph showing traders' apparent panic, the DOW Jones Industrial average took a straight dive before gradually shooting back up.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index also fell about 1 percent before rebounding, Bloomberg reports.
The alarming message appeared retweeted at least 1,181 times.
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An editor with the AP later wrote: 'Please ignore AP tweet on explosions, we've been hacked.'
'The President is fine,' White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also told the media, according to CBS News.
The AP has since temporarily suspended their main Twitter account as well as their mobile Twitter account, both of which they say were hacked.
All safe: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also told the media on Tuesday that the President is fine
The attack was preceded by a phishing attempt on their corporate network, the news agency said.
At the time of their Tweet they had a reported following of 1,905,403.
A group called the Syrian Electronic Army has since claimed credit for AP's hacking while specifically celebrating on their Facebook wall the impact made on stock prices.
The bogus report comes eight days after the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 200 others.
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By NINA GOLGOWSKI
PUBLISHED: 17:51 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 18:39 GMT, 23 April 2013
A terrifying report of explosions at the White House injuring President Obama caused the DOW Jones Industrial average to plunge 100 points after the Associated Press' Twitter account was allegedly hacked.
'Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,' the news agency Tweeted just after 1pm on Tuesday.
The White House and AP quickly assured the public that the report was not true but word didn't appear to come fast enough to those frantically responding on Wall Street.
Hacked: This terrifying report of explosions at the White House injuring President Obama has been deemed false after the Associated Press said they had been hackedPlunge: Immediately after the false Twitter report the DOW Jones Industrial average plunged 100 points before going back up again following reassurances from both the AP and the White HouseIn a graph showing traders' apparent panic, the DOW Jones Industrial average took a straight dive before gradually shooting back up.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index also fell about 1 percent before rebounding, Bloomberg reports.
The alarming message appeared retweeted at least 1,181 times.
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An editor with the AP later wrote: 'Please ignore AP tweet on explosions, we've been hacked.'
'The President is fine,' White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also told the media, according to CBS News.
The AP has since temporarily suspended their main Twitter account as well as their mobile Twitter account, both of which they say were hacked.
All safe: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney also told the media on Tuesday that the President is fineThe attack was preceded by a phishing attempt on their corporate network, the news agency said.
At the time of their Tweet they had a reported following of 1,905,403.
A group called the Syrian Electronic Army has since claimed credit for AP's hacking while specifically celebrating on their Facebook wall the impact made on stock prices.
The bogus report comes eight days after the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 200 others.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2RJe7Kmig
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