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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.
I would like to share my holiday story with you. Two years ago, I became violently ill and was diagnosed with heart failure. I was informed that I would require a heart transplant from a compatible donor or I would slowly die. After a long wait on the donor list, I was notified just a few days before Christmas that a donor was found and that it was my time to receive a transplant that would save my life. You can only imagine my joy, that I could live on as a result of this surgery. I met with the doctors to discuss the transplant and was excited to receive a new heart.
However, my joy quickly turned to sorrow as I learned the details of the transplant and the donor. On moral grounds, I could not accept the heart, and I had to decline while thanking the doctors for their time. It is unlikely that I will get another opportunity to receive a transplant, but it was the right decision to make. I am a black man, and I learned that the donor was white. Accepting the transplant would put a white heart, white DNA, and part of a white man inside of me. This would contaminate my blackness and make me partially white, something I could not accept.
My ancestors were forced into slave boats in Africa by white men. Those white men sold them to the highest bidder, another white man. Those white men beat and tortured my ancestors, treating them as less than inferior. Even after the slaves were freed, white men sought to continue the oppression. White people are clearly less than human, otherwise they could not treat other human beings in that manner. As a matter of principle, in preserving my racial purity and humanity, I could not accept a donation from a white man. It would contaminate me with subhuman DNA and make part of me much less than human, something I could not live with. Faced with destroying my racial purity or facing death, I proudly chose to decline the transplant. It is sad knowing that my chance at a heart transplant is gone, but I am grateful to have preserved my racial purity.
Thank you for reading. I trust that all of you will know and understand that I made the right decision. At least I have the joy, this holiday season, of knowing that I will die with my racial purity intact.
So hackers posted a fake obituary tweet... it could be worse, they could rig an election and put a Putin puppet into power. Next to undermining the worlds most powerful democracy, a tweet that temporarily upset a few gullible people is nothing.
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."
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/`
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
. . . 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."
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
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.