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Eugene

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 09:09 PM Jan 2015

New York Post and UPI Twitter accounts hacked

Source: BBC

16 January 2015 Last updated at 21:59 GMT

New York Post and UPI Twitter accounts hacked

The Twitter accounts of the New York Post and United Press International (UPI) have been hacked with fake tweets on economic and military news.

In one post, the Pope was quoted on UPI's Twitter feed as saying that "World War III has begun".

Meanwhile, the New York Post's account said that hostilities had broken out between the United States and China.

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UPI, which is based in Washington, confirmed in a statement that both its Twitter account and news website had been hacked.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30853311
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