A few hours after it became known the death of George Michael, yet another death that shocked the music lovers, a tweet came in to cause mischief. “Britney Spears was killed in a car accident. We’ll tell you more soon”.
The tweet appeared on the official account of Sony Music, but it wasn’t real. It was a result of the attack by hackers who accepted the account of the record company on twitter. It was preceded by a tweet that said only RIP @britneyspears.
The message announcing the “death” of the singer accompanied the hashtag #RIPBritney (p.p. Rest In Preace – Rest in peace) and an emoticon that was crying. It didn’t take long for the Sony to figure out how she had been attacked, to wipe out the tweet and apologize to the Spears. Of course, the news that Sony Music was attacked by hackers and… he died in the Britney Spears went viral and even CNN denied that the well-known singer, had been killed.
The two messages are quickly deleted. The company announced that the account had been hacker attack: “This was corrected. Sony Music is asking for an apology from Britney Spears and her fans for any confusion caused”.
Before the withdrawal of the disputed message posted on the official account of the singer Bob Dylan the following tweet: “Rest in peace @britneyspears”, as reported by the u.s. MEDIA. The message was also deleted shortly after.
Behind the attack on Sony Music is the hacker group OurMine, who has done violations of the twitter account. Only in 2016, the hackers of this group were able to gain access to the accounts of the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey and many others.
Last October they took the management of the page of BuzzFeed, while last week gained access to the accounts of Netflix and Marvel on Twitter.
The message announcing the “death” of Britney Spears…
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