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Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent (abc.net.au)
Sony Music Entertainment has apologised to Britney Spears fans after its Twitter account was hacked and fake statements saying that the pop music icon had died were posted online. From a report: Sony Music, a unit of Sony Corp, said in a short statement that its social media account was "compromised" but that the situation "has been rectified." The company said it "apologises to Britney Spears and her fans for any confusion." Funnily enough, after Sony Music Entertainment Twitter account was hacked and started tweeting about the death of Spears, another hacker group called OurMine hacked Sony's account to note that Spears is not dead.
First the sony PS Network hack, then the credit card leaks, and now this? Why is there security consistently so bad? Twitter's not even hard to secure, just use 2-factor authentication, something that'll defeat 90% of hack attempts. That they keep getting breached over and over again says something about their company culture towards investing in their customer's safety...
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
You really are a scumbag, aren't you? Choosing to plaster something like that with messages of joy and holidays, and clearly spending some time to make sure it was just right too. I say this speaking as a Texan conservative, but you are very clearly a white man who doesn't have a wife, spending his lonely Christmas alone, writing this shit out of hatred for your fellow Americans. May God save your soul, sir, but I hope you burn in Hell.
Britney Spears' career died a long time ago.
She seems to have been almost forgotten and this got more coverage than a sex tape (Not that anyone would be interested in one anymore with her i think.)
"We're Ourmine. We figured out a Twitter exploit and nothing else. Derp derp derp."
If people get their news from a Twitter feed, then who cares if they're duped. They deserve it. Twitter is not a news service. It is a "Look, Ma, no hands," brain bleed.
Huh. You'd think Sony would spell "apologize" right.
The second group could apparently do it in short notice. The term "gross negligence" comes to mind. It is time that companies that handle customer data and have some brand recognition will pay more in fines for things like this than they saved in IT security cost...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
After many, many great artists dying this year, with Lemmy dead, Bowie, Cohen, Michaels... THAT one had to be the fake one.
Fuck this year, I'm done with you, 2016.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
o/` ... oops, I did it again ... o/`
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My ancestors were forced into slave boats in Africa by white men.
Forced into slave boats by muslims. Who then sold them to Portuguese. Who then sold them to white men.
. . . to say that 2016 isn't over yet ? Britney still has a chance!
Funnily enough, after Sony Music Entertainment Twitter account was hacked and started tweeting about the death of Spears, another hacker group called OurMine hacked Sony's account to note that Spears is not dead.
Now she knows how Schroedinger's cat feels.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Dear Miss Spears,
We are sorry you are not dead.
Love, Sony.
for the fjords.
I took some dumb communications class in college as an easy elective. They required that we set up a Twitter account for some reason, so I created an account using a generic password created by just typing about 25 characters of gibberish into vi (I was testing a Slackware install), then copying/pasting into the password/confirmation screens. I never actually logged into it and didn't care about it one bit.
About halfway into the semester, I got an email that my password was changed. I looked up the account (that was never actually used for anything, despite being "required") and saw it was spamming Chinese stuff.
I'm pretty convinced that there is some sort of backdoor into Twitter. Never in my life has this happened to me with any other website. Then I see stuff like this where apparently major accounts can be hacked at a moment's notice, and that just reaffirms my beliefs. Maybe I'm wrong, but seriously take a moment to think about how often you hear about Twitter accounts being hacked. Does it happen this often with Instagram or any of those other shitty websites?
I was going to say "and nothing of value was lost."
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I would like to share my holiday story with you.
Die, you pathetic worthless piece of trash.
So your very distant ancestors were sold into slavery BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE for some beads and trinkets to the Dutch and yet many generations after being freed that is still holding you back. Sounds like a cop out and a very poor excuse for failing to make something of yourself during your life. It is probably for the best that you are going quietly, and minimizing the legacy of despair and stink of self pity that your family will have to endure.
Time to check which boogie man foreign power is currently in the news the most, assign blame for the hack to them and then continue on without changing anything.
These mortals are ready to do everything to gain more popularity. It concerns both Britney and Sony.