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Part of the WSJ website was hacked on Monday

A branded-content section of the Wall Street Journal’s website was hacked with a fake message apologizing to PewDiePie and urging people to subscribe to his channel, reports Todd Spangler of Variety.

Spangler writes, “A spokeswoman for Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, noted that the affected page was not affiliated with the Journal’s newsroom but rather is operated by advertising group’s the WSJ. Custom Solutions team. The affected page appeared under Oracle’s sponsored section of WSJ.com.

“‘We are aware of the issue and the page has been taken down,’ the Dow Jones rep said. ‘We have launched a full investigation.’

“The hacked WSJ.com page was removed Monday around 11:45 a.m. ET, shortly after PewDiePie — whose real name is Felix Kjellberg — posted a link to the page and gloated in a tweet Monday, ‘WSJ joins the fight vs tseries.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.