The Assassination of Barack Obama

Last Monday morning, July 4^th 2011, a rumor was spread that Barack Obama was dead from assassination. This rumor was apparently wrong. The fact was, a group of hackers broke into Fox News’ Twitter account and then posted a couple of tweets explaining the assassination of the president.

The first tweet was "@BarackObama has just passed. The president is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead." Further tweet described that Obama was shot twice while campaigning at a restaurant in Iowa.

A moment before the false tweets, the hackers proclaimed their access into the account, “Just regained full access to our Twitter and email. Happy 4th.”

During the account takeover, Obama was actually in Washington, planning to celebrate the US Independence Day with his family that night.

Source: ABC News, Yahoo!