Russian Prime Minister's Twitter Account Gets Hacked

Someone hacked the Twitter account of Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday, posting a series of fake messages including a resignation announcement.

"I am resigning. I am ashamed of the actions of the government. Forgive me," read the first tweet, according to The Interpreter . The tweets are now gone. But whoever hacked the account had control of the account for about 30 minutes

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Several of the tweets had a political message, including one that read: "#Crimea is not ours, please retweet."

Today, #Medvedev's account was hacked. One of the tweets was "#Crimea is not ours, please retweet"#Russia http://ift.tt/1uwSKws

— Jelena Prtoric (@yellena_p) August 14, 2014 Read more...

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