Twitter Celebrity Accounts Hacked

A flurry of some of the most high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked Monday morning with malicious messages.

The hacked accounts were those belonging to 24/7 news channel Fox News, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, pop star Britney Spears, and President-elect Barack Obama.

The Fox News hack announced that Bill O'Reilly [or Riley as hackers misspelled his name], host of the right-wing The O'Reilly Factor which is the #1 cable news show in America for several years now, is gay:

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Hackers made it appear as if CNN's Rick Sanchez, who updates his Twitter with some frequency, announced that he was high on crack and could not come into work:

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Barack Obama's Twitter, which has not be updates since November 5th, asked people to answer a survey of what they thought of Obama. Hackers must like Obama since he got off easy:

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And, finally, recovering pop star Britney Spears' Twitter had a public announcement that her vagina, well, just read yourself:

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All the Twitters hacks were done in the morning and since then, of course, have been deleted.