Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter

An anonymous reader writes "A Twitter account belonging to an official adviser of the Indonesian president has been broken into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta. Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter. But when he lost control of his account, a tsunami warning was sent out to Twitter users."

Re:Take with a grain of salt

[rastilin]

You're right, it's a matter of convenience. If it takes any longer than a few seconds, I vote for running.

This just in, who gives a fuck it's twitter.

[Anonymous Coward]

This just in, who gives a fuck it's twitter.

Re:I pity the fool.

[alvinrod]

Either you're being incredibly facetious or you're completely crazy. He eventually turned a deal where he lead the police to his wife's body [wikipedia.org] as part of the deal. The evidence up to that point was pretty damning, but I believe that being able to locate the body should remove any remaining doubt as to his guilt.

Re:So?

[Stooshie]

Twitter was successfully used to find an outbreak of bird flu in China, 3 months b4 the Chinese government admitted there was a problem.