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Britney Spears claimed to be dead in suspected 'hack' of Sony Twitter account

A Bob Dylan account also tweeted that Spears was dead.

MTV Video Music Awards 2016 - Arrivals - New York Britney Spears Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment Doug Peters / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment

AN OFFICIAL SONY Music Twitter account claimed that popstar Britney Spears was dead in what is suspected to have been a hack attack.

Spears has not passed away, CNN confirmed.

Sony Music Global posted the following tweets earlier today:

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The tweets have since been deleted.

In addition, the official Bob Dylan Twitter account also tweeted similar tweets:

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TMZ claims the ‘hack’ was the work of the OurMine group, which also claimed to have hacked a Netflix Twitter account earlier this month.

It has also previously hacked the accounts of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Sony has not commented on the incident.

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    Mute Skybloo
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    Dec 17th 2017, 8:24 AM

    So where is the UN /NATO/ US/UK / any other world military hero to step in and stop this cruelty and genocide?
    I suppose the region has nothing of worth to these ‘hero’ nations …
    Heartbreaking what a lot of humans do to a lot of other humans

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    Mute TheBluffmaster2
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    Dec 17th 2017, 8:54 AM

    @Declan Hegarty: maybe he is gelded Declan.

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    Mute Gillian Weir Scully
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:09 AM

    @Skybloo: You are right. Why has no one stepped up to help?

    These women who are being raped by strangers are also being blamed for the rape by their own families?

    Inhuman.

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    Mute Tommy Whelan
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:41 AM

    @Skybloo: why would they want to that . Every time they get involve in other countries business their call occupiers or invaders . Oh look theirs the yanks invading other people’s countries again . The biggest terrorists on the planet .

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    Mute Tony Gordon
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    Dec 17th 2017, 9:58 AM

    Lovely husband to return after leaving his wife to be raped, then blaming her on his return, true love.

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    Mute Chris Martin
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:56 AM

    @Tony Gordon: It just goes to show the whole mindset over there. Its a huge part of the problem.

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    Mute Austin Rock
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    Dec 17th 2017, 8:14 AM

    I am sure this makes for good bedtime reading for that witch Suu Kyi, hopefully at some future date the Hague and a dark cell awaits her.

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    Mute Duewest
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    Dec 17th 2017, 9:19 AM

    What a disturbing article to read. Barbaric is an understatement. Those poor defenseless people. Predators rotten to the core.

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    Mute Dara Smith
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:28 AM

    @Duewest: it truly is disturbing, I couldn’t finish it after reading victims as young as 9 – S(umbags.

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    Mute Gerry Peyton
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    Dec 17th 2017, 9:56 AM

    That’s a tough read but needs to be published worldwide to be made aware. Vermin like this need to be wiped out from society. Castrate every soldier who did this horrible act and may they have a very slow and painful death.

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    Mute Ranty McCrank
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:50 AM

    @Gerry Peyton: these crimes occur all over the world – Africa has a horrendous time. The UN is a failure when it comes to protecting innocent civilians. This is why people’s must be ready to defend themselves and military service can be very useful.

    Caution needs to be exercised also as some events are exaggerated or outright falsified to manipulate opinions eg the Iraq girl testifiying in the US before the Gulf Corporate regime change invasion.

    I haven’t seen any articles on the journal about what the western trained and armed ISIS did to Syrian Christians.

    The incompatibility of different cultures is a big problem. If resources and space are plentiful then multiculturalism can work but when stresses occur these types of atrocities sadly occur.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 11:21 AM

    @Gerry Peyton:
    Just in case you don’t know or you forget there are 3 sides to every story the 3rd side being the truth. This whole latest sorry mess kicked off after the rape of young Myanmar girls by Rohingya men. Of course that doesn’t fit the narrative.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 9:06 AM

    Cue Veronica blaming ALL men.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 9:36 AM

    @Misanthrope: Sad, fragile little snowflake. Men gang raping and that’s all you have?

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    Mute Chucky Arlaw
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:19 AM

    @Misanthrope: my god you really are pathetic

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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:23 AM

    It’s impossible to understand how you could inflict such cruelty on someone.

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    Mute Rosemarie Martin
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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:35 AM

    Frightening to think most if not all of these rapists have wives and children, who inherit their DNA. What is it in humanity that when in a large pack, we can become so barbaric, think Nazi camps where soldiers committed atrocities, and then went home to their blonde children and went to Mass and sang Carols at Xmas?

    How a gang of grown men can rape a child [or woman] is beyond me. No spoils to be had, hence nobody has come to their aid. Shame on us.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 11:12 AM

    People couldn’t care less. That’s it in a nut shell. We are not worthy of the planet we have.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 10:52 AM

    This is shocking. Even worse than Israel’s barbaric crimes against Palestinian women and children and that’s saying something. The UN needs to take a firmer approach.

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    Mute Dylan K
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    Dec 17th 2017, 11:33 AM

    If they’re going to be shot, stabbed, killed and raped anyway, they need to arm themselves. Every yank has a gun and can shoot someone for looking in their windows.

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    Dec 17th 2017, 1:12 PM

    bomb the shit out of myanmar

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