NYT questioning apparent Twitter hack

The New York Times is questioning an apparent penetrate of one of a Twitter accounts that happened Sunday morning.

The newspaper’s video account, @nytvideo, tweeted around 9:40 a.m. ET a hoax about a barb conflict from Russia opposite a United States.

The summary attributed news about a “missile attack” to a “leaked statement” from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Times’ video criticism has some-more than 250,000 supporters on a platform.

That twitter was fast deleted. But successive tweets shortly popped adult claiming to be from OurMine, a organisation that has hacked high-profile amicable media accounts, including that of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, to publicize confidence services.

“Message from OurMine: We rescued surprising activity on a criticism and we re-hacked it to make certain if a criticism is hacked or not,” review one twitter posted to a @nytvideo criticism Sunday.

A second OurMine twitter claimed a criticism was compromised by whoever hijacked Sony Music’s Twitter criticism final month to twitter a hoax about Britney Spears’ death.

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The messages purporting to be from OurMine were also deleted. The Times criticism after tweeted that it deleted a array of tweets published from a criticism “without a authorization.”

We deleted a array of tweets published from this criticism progressing currently but a authorization. We are questioning a situation.

— New York Times Video (@nytvideo) January 22, 2017

“We are questioning a situation,” that twitter read.

Asked for comment, a Times mouthpiece referred CNNMoney to that tweet.

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