{"id":8587,"date":"2009-06-29T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-29T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T19:40:00","slug":"twitpic-accounts-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8587-twitpic-accounts-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitpic accounts hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet messaging system shut down part of its service after the hacking was discovered Sunday because of what the company described as a &#8220;vulnerability&#8221; in the mobile posting system.<\/p>\n<p>Twitpic Incorporated, based in Charleston, South Carolina, said to disregard a message from Spears&#8217; account that incorrectly said the singer had died, and they were &#8220;implementing a fix immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitpic is a program that allows users of Twitter to share photographs. It is not owned by Twitter Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Emails seeking further comment from Twitpic were not immediately returned Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=179071\"><strong>Twitpic accounts hacked<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres after breaking into their Twitpic accounts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}