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Burger King Twitter Account Hacked 

via The Huffington Post

This is exactly why you don't give the Hamburglar your Twitter password...

Someone apparently hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday and changed its photo to the McDonald's logo and name "McDonalds." The hacker then claimed Burger King was sold to McDonald's, and then posted a host of raunchy messages. read more

Jeep Twitter Account Hacked, Joins @BurgerKing In Recent Attacks
via ABC News

Stop us if this sounds familiar. A huge brand name has its Twitter account hacked. The account’s bio is changed to say that the brand has been sold to a competitor. Tweets are sent from the account spouting racial epithets, insinuating that employees are partaking in drug use, tagging @YourAnonNews and using the mysterious hashtag #300.

It’s a social media “Groundhog Day” today for anyone familiar with what happened to @BurgerKing’s Twitter account just 24 hours ago. Today, Internet pranksters have apparently taken over the @Jeep Twitter account with a new bio suggesting the company was “sold” to Cadillac and using plenty of less than brand-friendly language. read more

First Take: AP Twitter Hack Was Trivial
via USA Today

The hack that caused the market to stumble briefly today was trivial.

Someone cracked into the AP's Twitter account and tweeted a bogus headline about the White House being bombed. That was enough to cause the S&P 500 to crater for a few minutes.

Cybercriminals often take the easiest route. So it's likely that this prankster simply went shopping in the cyberunderground to obtain the username and password of an AP employee

authorized to use the wire service's Twitter account, says J.D. Sherry, security consultant at Trend Micro. read more