NBC News Twitter Account Hacked By The Script Kiddies
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I was shocked when I read a tweet from NBC News official Twitter account stating, “Breaking News! Ground Zero has just been attacked. Flight 5736 has crashed into the site, suspected hijacking. more as the story develops”, after which I visited the Twitter page for NBC News and found that it was hacked by the famous cyber hackers named as The Script Kiddies, if you could only recall this is the same hackers group that was previously involved in hacking the Twitter account of Fox News.
The fake news that was updated on NBC News official Twitter account by The Script Kiddies regarding Ground Zero was receiving large number of re-tweets, so the Twitter officials in order to stop the fast rolling of the news decided to suspend the very Twitter account of the popular news agency of America.
Click here to see the status of the NBC News Twitter account and also read the shocking tweets below in the screen-shot taken from NBC News Twitter account when it was hacked.
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