Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent

Sony Music Entertainment has apologised to Britney Spears fans after its Twitter account was hacked and fake statements saying that the pop music icon had died were posted online. From a report: Sony Music, a unit of Sony Corp, said in a short statement that its social media account was "compromised" but that the situation "has been rectified." The company said it "apologises to Britney Spears and her fans for any confusion." Funnily enough, after Sony Music Entertainment Twitter account was hacked and started tweeting about the death of Spears, another hacker group called OurMine hacked Sony's account to note that Spears is not dead.

Could've been better

[Lead Butthead]

I was going to say "and nothing of value was lost."

Seriously???

[EmeraldBot]

First the sony PS Network hack, then the credit card leaks, and now this? Why is there security consistently so bad? Twitter's not even hard to secure, just use 2-factor authentication, something that'll defeat 90% of hack attempts. That they keep getting breached over and over again says something about their company culture towards investing in their customer's safety...

Re:Seriously???

[gweihir]

Sony is doing IT Security cheaper than possible. As long as this does not have personal consequences, for the people that screwed up here (no, I do not mean the administrators that were not given budget and time, but the ones making the decisions), nothing will change.

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[Solandri]

2FA works great for an individual or couple. It doesn't work so well for a group-shared account. If a dozen employees have access to an account and one quits or is fired, you'd have to regenerate a new 2FA key and update it to the remaining 11 employees. It's the same reason Sony's passwords were stored in an unencrypted text file during the original PS Network hack (and the reason your company probably posts shared passwords on the refrigerator in the break room) - it becomes tedious to send updated pas

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[unixisc]

Since the North Korean hack at around this time last year, shouldn't Sony have beefed up their security?

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[k6mfw]

Why is there security consistently so bad?

I keep asking the same. Why, why, why?!?! I met a bank loan officer asking with one hack after another, and all of us are pretty much alarm fatigued by it all so we ignore it, is how does his bank deal with it? Does he get a lot of scam emails? His answer is they have triple layer, this and that security... Yeah I also asked we have heard this from many other companies and agencies, and yet they've been hacked. He couldn't really answer that question and I don't think anyone can.

The first tweet was right

[thegarbz]

Britney Spears' career died a long time ago.

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[gtall]

Her career has gone where all careers go to die, Las Vegas.

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[krakelohm]

At 15 million a year in Vegas sign me up for career death!

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[will_die]

Most shows are sold out and she does not have to travel to give a concert, the audiences come to her.

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[k6mfw]

I believe she still has success with music sales and concerts, obviously not as much as before, surprisingly Britney managed to keep active in the business this long. I was thinking of her doing another genre like Julie London singing songbook standards of Porter, Gershwin, Berlin, etc. and also wear the beautiful dresses like Julie, http://jazztimes.com/articles/... [jazztimes.com]

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[unixisc]

She did such a great job that her kids were awarded to her ex, while her younger sister got knocked up while still underage, and then married. I doubt there's anything in the sex department that she has left to peddle

so what?

[Tekkah Tek]

If people get their news from a Twitter feed, then who cares if they're duped. They deserve it. Twitter is not a news service. It is a "Look, Ma, no hands," brain bleed.

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[DamonHD]

While being smug and rude about $SOCIAL_PLATFORM_DU_JOUR is kinda amusing, for the record I have received plenty of important (to me) items of news via Twitter that took a long time to make it via conventional media, if at all, such as the death of a (non-celeb) hero of mine.

Rgds

Damon

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[unixisc]

GFY: everybody's perception of heroes doesn't match yours i.e. is not someone that only the media is interested in

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[RobotRunAmok]

Actually, you are incorrect. Many if not most private/public companies, journalists, and politicians all use Twitter to disseminate news, bypassing web sites, which they formerly used to bypass the "formal" press. What, an artist's record label reports that one of their marquee acts has died, and the public is supposed to respond, "yeah, sure, I'll believe it when I read it in the Washington Post?'

Get with the times, son...

Seems to be really, really easy to hack Sony...

[gweihir]

The second group could apparently do it in short notice. The term "gross negligence" comes to mind. It is time that companies that handle customer data and have some brand recognition will pay more in fines for things like this than they saved in IT security cost...

A Britney Spears song for Sony...

[antdude]

o/` ... oops, I did it again ... o/` [youtube.com]

Re:Seems to be really, really easy to hack Sony...

[alphatel]

We apologize for the fault in the tweets.
Those responsible for hacking the people who have just been hacked have been hacked.

Figures

[Opportunist]

After many, many great artists dying this year, with Lemmy dead, Bowie, Cohen, Michaels... THAT one had to be the fake one.

Fuck this year, I'm done with you, 2016.

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[Opportunist]

That one guy who used to be named Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.

Sorry, I have trouble correctly pronouncing those complicated foreign names.

Am I awful. . . .

[Salgak1]

. . . to say that 2016 isn't over yet ? Britney still has a chance!

Ha!

[Black Parrot]

Funnily enough, after Sony Music Entertainment Twitter account was hacked and started tweeting about the death of Spears, another hacker group called OurMine hacked Sony's account to note that Spears is not dead.

Now she knows how Schroedinger's cat feels.

Blame it on the state

[PingSpike]

Time to check which boogie man foreign power is currently in the news the most, assign blame for the hack to them and then continue on without changing anything.

Fame

[mobdev_outsourcing]

These mortals are ready to do everything to gain more popularity. It concerns both Britney and Sony.