Twitters Hacked: Fox News, Barack Obama, Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears

A flurry of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked, most prominently the Fox News account, which has declared that Bill O'Reilly is gay.

Fox News' Twitter posted an update, since deleted, Monday morning announcing, "Bill O Riley is gay."

CNN's Rick Sanchez, a prominent Twitter user, was also hacked. His malicious tweet read, "i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today."

Britney Spears's Twitter also fell victim, with hackers announcing that her vagina is "4 feet wide with razor sharp teeth."

Update: Barack Obama's Twitter, which hasn't been used since November 5, has also been hacked. The Washington Times points out that a message was posted around 12:30 PM eastern time promoting a survey on Obama:

A message sent about 12:30 eastern time alerted the president-elect's tens of thousands of Twitter followers of a new message: "What is your opinion on Barack Obama? Take the survey and possibly win $500 in free gas." The message then linked to an odd two-question survey on a third party's Web site.

The post was taken down shortly after it was posted.

Fox News hack:

Barack Obama hack:

Rick Sanchez hack:

Britney Spears hack:

Comments

[grf67]

12:09 PM on 01/24/2009

Is O'Reilly gay on just the weekends or every night?

[walk0nwalls]

12:59 PM on 01/08/2009

Hello internet random machine.

[Contributed]

06:42 PM on 01/07/2009

You liberals lie so much you can't beat him so you always try smears, we are wise to you jerks.

[NewOrleans4Obama]

04:36 AM on 01/08/2009

We hack into your twitter accounts and try to scam people with promises of free gas at the same time. You caught us!

[slemay]

10:02 AM on 01/08/2009

Bill O is the least factually reliable voice on television­. He makes up facts as he goes, but because he pretends to be middle class, even though he is a multimilli­naire. He relies on people like you to forget what he said last week so that he can contradict himself today. Congratual­tions on helping drag down public discourse and remove any hope of facts from the dialog.

[jsgaetano]

01:20 PM on 01/07/2009

O'Reilly outs himself... and Fox clamps down with some exuse. "Hacked"..­. yeah, right.

[lib2dbone]

08:50 PM on 01/06/2009

Wow! What is this world coming to?
First there was the shocking news that Clay Aiken was gay.
Then Bill O'Reilly.
I guess next you'll expect me to believe that Richard Simmons is gay too.

Boom goes the dynamite.

[kirsh]

07:46 PM on 01/06/2009

Have you guys readed Bill's New book , number 1 best seller , Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, If your read it it will tell you If he Gay or not ,Let me know if he is or not ?

[Happylib]

07:35 PM on 01/06/2009

Hacking is a serious crime that takes legitimate newscaster­s reputation­s and....oh who am I kidding...­that is HILARIOUS.

[slarabee]

08:30 AM on 01/07/2009

lol

[Grubstreet]

05:14 PM on 01/06/2009

These hackers are just confused. It's Britney who's gay, while Bill O'Reilly is... er... no, wait a minute, let me think about this.

[unfettered]

03:23 PM on 01/06/2009

All those 'tweet's' are plausible.
Well, not the 'gay thing' I don't know a Gay man alive with that bad taste.

[RobinSeattle]

01:29 PM on 01/06/2009

Nice job giving the hackers millions of dollars worth of free publicity, media.

[QuietNetworker]

02:56 PM on 01/06/2009

Should we hide hackers in the closet?

Especially since they're largely a positive
on culture and society and remind us
that "technolog­y" and "easy communicat­ions"
aren't always the answer to the woes of
the world?

Warmly,

Paulie Sabol

[slarabee]

08:31 AM on 01/07/2009

Man you do not know the first thing about hackers do you? Does your geek friend help with those computer issues you have?

[Culturemaven]

01:04 PM on 01/06/2009

This is unbelievab­ly sad. The misspellin­g of O'Reilly's name, I mean.

[LWkcma]

12:14 PM on 01/06/2009

I ROFLMAO at all postings except the o really declaratio­n

[meeneecat]

11:55 AM on 01/06/2009

What an insult to gay people. What man, let alone woman, would want to get it on with this man, his *.ick hole is probably full of cobwebs...­.Ahhh! it's gonna give me seizures just thinking about that - e w e w e w get it out of my head!

[jpmdevildog]

11:46 AM on 01/06/2009

After a spate of high-profi­le Twitter accounts were hacked, Bigfoot became the next victim.

Weekly World News was able to screen-cap­ture the fake update before it was deleted, which announced, “nessie is gay”.

http://www­.weeklywor­ldnews.com­/mutants/b­igfoot-twi­tter-hacke­d/

[Chlowina]

11:16 AM on 01/06/2009

O'Riley Gay? What an insult to the Gay Community.

[CitizenJ]

12:50 PM on 01/06/2009

He's not much better for the heterosexu­al community.

[CitizenJ]

12:51 PM on 01/06/2009

For the human race really. Assuming he is a human.