Outfoxed by hackers

WASHINGTON. The Secret Service says it will investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.
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Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency will conduct a probe of the false postings.

Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account on Monday, leaving a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death in Iowa.

On its website, Fox News called the tweets malicious and false.

An online magazine at New York's Stony Brook University, Think, reported that initial posts indicated the Fox News Twitter account had been hacked by a group called the Script Kiddies.

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