The New York Post employee responsible for a Thursday morning hack of the newspaper’s Twitter feed and website has been fired for “unauthorized conduct,” a spokesperson for the newspaper said.
(Bloomberg) — The New York Post employee responsible for a Thursday morning hack of the newspaper’s Twitter feed and website has been fired for “unauthorized conduct,” a spokesperson for the newspaper said.
Tweets on the paper’s account linked to pages on its website with offensive headlines, including calling for the assassination of some US leaders as well as racist and misogynistic content.
The newspaper immediately removed the “vile and reprehensible” content on its website and social media, the spokesperson said.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. owns the New York Post.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who was the subject of one of the headlines, blasted the New York Post and the hack through her press secretary, who called the posts “more disgusting and vile than usual.”
Earlier this year, the Post and other News Corp. properties — including The Wall Street Journal — were targeted in what cybersecurity researchers described as a likely Chinese-backed intelligence operation. Dow Jones said that hackers pilfered a “limited number” of email accounts and documents relating to topics of interest to China.
–With assistance from Jack Gillum.
(Updates with employee firing beginning in first paragraph.)
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