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The Secret Service said Monday it would investigate the hacking of Fox’s political Twitter account over updates falsely claiming that US President Barack Obama had been assassinated, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Secret Service spokesperson George Ogilvie said the law enforcement agency, whose job it is to protect the president, would look into the false postings and “conduct the appropriate follow-up.”
Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account early Monday, leaving a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death in Iowa and the shooter was unknown.
In a statement on its website, Fox News called the tweets “malicious” and “false.”
“We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts,” said Jeff Misenti, vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital.