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    Obama joins others in getting Twitter account hacked

    By MinnPost staff | Published Tue, Jan 6 2009 9:32 am

    President-elect Barack Obama and other notables such as Britney Spears and CNN's Rick Sanchez were the victims of hackers recently. Dan Brown at Direct Traffic Media states 33 Twitter accounts were hacked into and fake messages were posted. A text from Obama's account offered $500 in free gas for taking a survey. The networking site, which currently has 3 million account holders, believes it was an individual rather that a group of hackers who initiated these attacks. Read the rest of the post here.

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