Britney Spears' Twitpic Account Hacked

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p type="articleSubhead"Hackers also broke into Ellen DeGeneres' and Diddy's accounts, posted message the stars had died.br/By Gil Kaufman/ppa href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1614885/20090629/spears_britney.jhtml"img type="photo"src="http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/s/spears_britney/twitter_hacked_062909/281x211.jpg"//abr/i type="articlePhotoCaption"Britney Spears/ibr/i type="articlePhotoCredit"Photo: David Aguilera/ BuzzFoto/ FilmMagic/i/pp type="articleText" pRelax, a href="/music/artist/spears_britney/artist.jhtml"Britney Spears/a is just fine. The singer was just the victim of yet another Twitter hack over the weekend, along with talk-show host/ comedian Ellen DeGeneres. According to a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-twitpic-celebrity-hacking,0,1221478.story" target="_blank"iThe Associated Press,/i/a hackers broke into Spears' and DeGeneres' Twitpic accounts and sent out fake messages, including one that said Britney was dead./pp"Britney has passed today," one of the fake messages said. "It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come."/ppTwitpic, a Web-based messaging system that is not owned by Twitter, allows users of the micro-blogging site to share photos. Twitpic service shut down briefly on Sunday after discovering what the Charleston, South Carolina-based company called a "vulnerability" in its mobile posting service. In a note to users, Twitpic asks users to disregard the message about Spears alleged death and promised that the company was "implementing a fix immediately."/ppThe image on a href="http://twitpic.com/photos/britneyspears" target="_blank"Spears' Twitpic account/a and the associated post have been deleted, and Brit's staff posted a a href="http://twitter.com/britneyspears" target="_blank"message/a reassuring fans that she is alive and well. Social-media news site a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/28/britney-spears-dead/" target="_blank"Mashable/a also reported that producer/rapper a href="/music/artist/puff_daddy/artist.jhtml"Diddy's/a page had been attacked with a similar false death report./ppSpears has been Twitter hacked in the past, including earlier this year, when a malicious hacker posted rude comments about her in an attack that also pinpointed the accounts of then President-elect Obama, Fox News and CNN anchor Rick Sanchez./p/pbRelated Artists/bullia type="relatedArtist"href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/spears_britney/artist.jhtml"Britney Spears/a/lilia type="relatedArtist"href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/puff_daddy/artist.jhtml"Diddy/a/li/ulimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MTVNewsLatest/~4/gjR34i_H-60" height="1" width="1"/

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