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  Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter

  Posted: November 26th, 2010, 6:39am CET by samzenpus

  Tags:  security  

  An anonymous reader writes "A Twitter account belonging to an official adviser of the Indonesian president has been broken into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta. Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter. But when he lost control of his account, a tsunami warning was sent out to Twitter users."

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