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Celebrity accounts fall prey to Twitter hack.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| January 06, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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A new series of attacks on microblogging site Twitter are leaving some celebrities red-faced.

According to a company blog posting, the attacks occurred early on Monday morning and targeted 33 accounts, including several celebrity Twitter feeds. Among the victims were US President-elect Barack Obama, pop star Britney Spears and news networks CNN and Fox News.

The hacker posted a fictional update to the Twitter feed for CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez which read "I am high on crack right now, might not be coming into work today." A similar post was made to the Fox news blog claiming that anchor Bill O'Reilly was gay, while Spears feed sported a …

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