Hackers hijack PayPal's Twitter account
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Hackers seized control of a PayPal Twitter feed for more than an hour on Tuesday, then sent out messages criticising the payment processor in the second attack of its type in two days.
The hijacking of the PayPalUK Twitter feed came a day after hackers took control of a Fox News feed for more than five hours, then sent false tweets saying that US President Barack Obama had been shot dead.
In PayPal's case, the attackers sent out messages promoting paypalsucks.com, a site devoted to what it says is "exposing the nightmare of doing business 'the PayPal way.'" The Tweets were removed within a few hours of the hijacking. "Sorry, the profile you are trying to view has been suspended," Twitter said on its page for the PayPalUK feed.
