This post has been corrected. See the note below for more details.
Despite an end of week long vacation, the pirates kept working, targeting Fox News and Apple in the last series of cyber attacks.
Hackers exposed many E-mail and password for Apple combinations and infiltrated Twitter account a Fox News, by sending of tweets several falsely that President Obama was assassinated.
As America celebrated its independence, the pirates have taken control of account Twitter of Fox News and tweeted six messages to followers of 34 000 @ foxnewspolitics indicating that the President had been killed Monday morning, according to Fox News.
The tweets that have been noticed on 5 (EDT), have been deleted after Twitter suspends account around noon and returns control to Fox News. New output did not have access to the account for hours that the hacker has changed the password once they were.
The news network addressed the intrusion in a post online and said that he was working with Twitter to find out what had happened.
"We will be be requesting a detailed investigation of Twitter on how this happened and steps to prevent future unauthorized access in the accounts of FoxNews.com," said Jeff Misenti, vice President and General Manager of Fox News Digital.
[Update, 12: 15, 5 July: "network not was not in control of the account once it was disrupted and Twitter was inaccessible until late morning hour yesterday," said Misenti.] ["The tweets were taken as soon as Twitter gave control of the account for the network."]
Pirates of the activist group anonymous online went after Apple one before the day of the tech head.
A Twitter account associated with the Group made a Sunday tweet, which implies that Apple may be a future target of attack greater than she hack also linked to a document on PasteBin with a list of emails and passwords.
"Apple may be target, too," read the tweet. "But don't worry, we're busy elsewhere".
For the record, 12: 15, 5 July: An earlier version of this post stated that the pirates to a Fox News Twitter account had tweeted five messages. They tweeted six messages.
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Image: A screenshot of a tweet by an account Twitter associated with Group of anonymous hacker on the attack on Apple. Credit: Twitter
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