In an apparent hack Sunday morning, the New York Times Video Twitter account posted a fake news tweet about Russia planning to launch a missile attack on the United States.
"BREAKING: leaked statement from Vladimir Putin says: Russia will attack the United States with Missiles," read the tweet posted on the account around 10 a.m.
Two follow up tweets on the account — which has more than 259,000 followers — claimed to come from OurMine, a hacker group that has breached high-profile Twitter accounts for Marvel, Netflix and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
We deleted a series of tweets published from this account earlier today without our authorization. We are investigating the situation.
— New York Times Video (@nytvideo) January 22, 2017
"Message from OurMine: We detected unusual activity on the account and we re-hacked it to make sure if the account is hacked or not," one tweet said.
Another tweet claimed the Times tweet came from the same hacker who posted a fake announcement about Britney Spears' death last month on the Sony Music account.
A tweet claimed a leaked memo from Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of an attack on the United States.
(Alexei Druzhinin/AP)
All of the hacked tweets eventually disappeared from the Times page.
"We deleted a series of tweets published from this account earlier today without our authorization. We are investigating the situation," the account wrote in a subsequent tweet.
This is one of the tweets people are flagging that @nytvideo says an unauthorized user sent pic.twitter.com/TUjVl4jGYo
— newyorkist (@Newyorkist) January 22, 2017
According to reports from August 2016, hackers thought to be working for Russia broke into the emails accounts of New York Times reporters earlier that year. The FBI investigated the reports.
No emails from the reported hack ever appeared to emerge.
Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said in August there was "no evidence" of a hack on the Times' internal systems.
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