# Fox News Twitter hacked **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814 "2011-07-04T15:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/1 "2011-07-04T15:04:35Z")
Claims that president has been shot. Here’s the story: [http://gawker.com/5817895/hacked-fox-news-tweets-that-obama-is-dead](http://gawker.com/5817895/hacked-fox-news-tweets-that-obama-is-dead) > [@](#): > > The Fox News Politics Twitter account was hacked early this morning, and a number of Tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated were sent out. Fox has acknowledged the hack, but apparently still can’t access the account—as of this post, the Tweets still haven’t been taken down. And last I checked, the fake posts were still up. [http://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics](http://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/2 "2011-07-04T15:20:49Z")
So, the accuracy of the feed is largely unchanged. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/3 "2011-07-04T15:20:55Z")
Is there some reason they can’t just reset their password or contact Twitter to get it fixed? Also, I assume the tweet that says they just regained control of their account is one of the fake ones…clever. What’s the first fake one? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/4 "2011-07-04T15:23:46Z")
That’s pretty fucked up that the messages are still up there. Seriously, can’t someone from Fox News demonstrate some sort of credentials to get the account back? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/5 "2011-07-04T15:33:46Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > That’s pretty fucked up that the messages are still up there. Seriously, can’t someone from Fox News demonstrate some sort of credentials to get the account back? Of course they can but it’s Fox, the disgusting fucks are leaving it up on purpose. A new low. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/6 "2011-07-04T15:55:34Z")
The tweets have finally been deleted. I wonder if it was FOX, Twitter or the Secret Service that finally took care of it. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/7 "2011-07-04T16:19:09Z")
Well, at least it didn’t Tweet a crotch shot to its girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/8 "2011-07-04T17:13:48Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The tweets have finally been deleted. I wonder if it was FOX, Twitter or the Secret Service that finally took care of it. They’re still up there for me. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/9 "2011-07-04T17:19:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > They’re still up there for me. Do a hard refresh (F5). The last tweet is about the hack and the previous one is from last week. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/10 "2011-07-04T17:30:58Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Do a hard refresh (F5). The last tweet is about the hack and the previous one is from last week. Weird. Still showing up for me. Cleared all the caches and browsing history, too. Checked it from a different computer, as well, that hadn’t accessed the Twitter feed previously. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/11 "2011-07-04T17:39:45Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Of course they can but it’s Fox, the disgusting fucks are leaving it up on purpose. A new low. :rolleyes: Yeah, they’re risking their what little credibility they have left just to fool some hillbillies into thinking Obama’s been shot for a couple of hours. Because they’re just that evil. I agree, this is the most likely explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/12 "2011-07-04T17:41:35Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Of course they can but it’s Fox, the disgusting fucks are leaving it up on purpose. A new low. I think very little of Fox News, but I don’t think they’d leave the messages up to troll anybody. They’re not written in a journalistic style (waits for jokes) and they’re not even remotely credible. But I’m still seeing the tweets and I find that very confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/13 "2011-07-04T17:50:21Z")
Tweets still there. Even after hitting F5. What a bunch of clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/14 "2011-07-04T17:53:36Z")
I just checked the feed - first time I ever loaded it. The tweets are still up. I wonder if their password was something simple like “foxnewpolitics” or “password”… -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/15 "2011-07-04T18:01:50Z")
Same here, hadn’t visited the feed until after it was announced that they’d been taken down, and a hard refresh still gives me the assassination tweets, plus the latest tweet linking to the article that they’d been hacked. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/16 "2011-07-04T18:09:17Z")
All this begs the question, just how would one go about regaining control of a hacked Twitter account? I see that the foxnewspolitics feed is a verified account. You’d think it’d be a simple matter of someone at Fox News getting on the horn with Twitter and telling them to, at the very least, take down the account until they got this mess straightened out. I also recall that when Anonymous hacked HBGary’s Twitter feed a couple of months ago, the hackers’ tweets, including the (alleged) social security number and home phone number of Aaron Barr remained up for days. ETA: Just checked again, and all the fake twitter posts are gone. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/17 "2011-07-04T19:57:45Z")
I’m guessing that they deleted them and it’s taking some time for the deletion to propagate to all the servers. That might be why people are sometimes seeing them gone, and other times not. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/18 "2011-07-04T21:58:13Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m guessing that they deleted them and it’s taking some time for the deletion to propagate to all the servers. That might be why people are sometimes seeing them gone, and other times not. Yeah, it still hasn’t changed here for me. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/19 "2011-07-05T01:03:14Z")
[Secret Service to probe hack of Fox News Twitter reporting Obama’s death](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fox-news-political-twitter-account-appears-to-have-been-hacked-tweets-report-obamas-death/2011/07/04/gHQAddmTxH_story.html) [I saw it within an hour](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillklausen/5900453488/in/photostream/lightbox/) of when it was first posted. Never dreamed it would still be up by the time I got up today. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814/20 "2011-07-05T02:24:26Z")
Why do we believe Fox News’ story that they were hacked? I mean … they are who they are. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-twitter-hacked/587814.md?page=2)