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The New York Post’s web site and Twitter account have been hacked Thursday, as racist and sexually specific headlines about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden have been printed.
The posts have been eliminated shortly thereafter on Thursday morning, and the News Corp-owned New York tabloid newspaper’s web site was working as standard. The Post has 2.8 million followers on Twitter.
A New York Post spokesperson confirmed in an electronic mail to CNBC on Thursday that the web site was hacked, and they’re at present investigating the trigger. The spokesperson supplied no additional remark.
The headlines appeared with images however hyperlinks that did not result in articles. In addition to violent and specific headlines concentrating on Biden and his son, Hunter, and Ocasio-Cortez, there was additionally a racist headline concerning New York Mayor Eric Adams and a publish concentrating on unionized academics.
Representatives for the president, Ocasio-Cortez, Adams, New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin and incumbent Kathy Hochul – who have been additionally talked about in specific headlines – did not instantly reply to requests for remark. Content administration system WordPress did not instantly reply to remark, both.
This is the second hack on a U.S. media publication in latest weeks. In late September, the Fast Company had shut down its web site after its website was hacked and despatched out “obscene and racist” push notifications to Apple News customers.
At the time, Fast Company mentioned on Twitter its content material administration system was hacked and impacted its Apple News alerts. The firm, which additionally makes use of WordPress, had suspended its web site instantly. It later mentioned it retained a world incident response and cybersecurity agency to analyze the matter.
–CNBC’s Stefan Sykes and Jack Stebbins contributed to this text.