Celebrity Death Hoaxes

Internet Britney Spears Twitpic accounts for Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres hacked.

by Associated Press

Published: Mon, June 29, 2009 - 3:14 am CST Last Updated: Mon, June 29, 2009 - 3:17 am CST

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres
after breaking into their Twitpic accounts.

The Internet messaging system shut down part of its service after the hacking was discovered Sunday because of what the
Charleston, S.C.-based company described as a "vulnerability" in the mobile posting system.

Twitpic Inc. said to disregard a message from Spears' account that incorrectly said the singer had died, and they were
"implementing a fix immediately."

Twitpic is a program that allows users of Twitter to share photographs. It is not owned by Twitter Inc.

Emails to Noah Winecoff at Twitpic and the press office at San Francisco-based Twitter were not immediately returned Sunday.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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minimay87 Says:

Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:47 am

Yeah there have been multiple cases of people signing onto the twitter accounts posing as someone else. All you have to do is find a pic of the person on the internet and post messages as them. Plus you should never believe something you read the first time. Really should not believe it until it comes from the horses mouth. Although I am sure all are guilty at one time of doing just the opposite.

goneisland2 Says:

Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:50 am

Some of these people who have nothing to do (i.e. they don’t have jobs) need to find something constructive to do rather but out bogus information and hack into accounts. Maybe Obama can find jobs for them.