AP Twitter Hack Falsely Claims Explosions at White House

The Associated Press falsely tweeted on Tuesday news that the White House was subjected to two explosions and President Obama had been injured. The message was a part of an alleged hack on the wire service's Twitter account.

"Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured," the AP tweeted.

The @AP Twitter account — which has since been suspended — quickly clarified the account had been compromised. Twitter users were also fast to debunk the claims, and AP staffers took to the site to announce it was hacked

All: The main @ap Twitter account has been hacked, The tweets coming out of there are false. We are working to correct the problem.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) April 23, 2013 Read more...