{"id":149319,"date":"2018-01-28T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149319"},"modified":"2018-01-28T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T06:11:26","slug":"sean-hannitys-twitter-page-compromised-vanishes-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/28\/sean-hannitys-twitter-page-compromised-vanishes-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity’s Twitter page compromised, vanishes for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Sean Hannity (Photo By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Fox News host Sean Hannity’s Twitter account was compromised and was unavailable for a few hours on Saturday, inspiring speculation by his conservative followers that a government cabal they call the \u201cdeep state\u201d or a rogue employee could be to blame.<\/p>\n

After Hannity’s verified Twitter account posted a message that simply and cryptically said \u201cForm Submission 1649,\u201d visitors said they were getting a \u201cSorry, that page doesn’t exist\u201d error message. By the time Hannity’s account was back up later in the morning, speculation was rampant about the mysterious disappearance.<\/p>\n

Fox News referred questions to Twitter, which confirmed the account had been compromised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we normally do not discuss individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons, we have permission from the account owner to confirm that account was briefly compromised,\u201d Twitter said by email, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

Some Hannity followers blamed shadowy \u201cdeep state\u201d government figures looking to take down Hannity, who’s a big supporter of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Deep State is in panic!\u201d tweeted Alex Jones, a far-right radio show host. \u201cHannity disappears from Twitter after eerie tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to Twitter to observe how Hannity had his account \u201cmysteriously disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other users were rooting for the theory that a rogue Twitter employee was behind the deactivation. That was Twitter’s explanation for an 11-minute outage that took down the Republican president’s twitter account in November.<\/p>\n

At the time, Twitter blamed a customer support worker on his or her last day on the job and said it was implementing safeguards to prevent the situation from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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