WSJ’s Facebook page is hacked

The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook page was hacked briefly Sunday morning, reports Jonathan Ellis of Mashable.

Ellis writes, “The WSJ deleted the fake posts, but not before several users captured screenshots of the apparent hacking:

Image: Imgur, Krishna Sapkota

“The newspaper then posted a message saying it was “looking into” the situation:

“‘We acted quickly to remove erroneous material and have secured the account,’ a WSJ spokeswoman said later on Sunday morning.

“The incident echoed the hacking of the Associated Press’ Twitter feed last year, when a false report of explosions at the White House was posted. That fake information was also quickly debunked. However, the AP episode occurred in the middle of the day on a Tuesday, so the tweet was widely seen and the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged before recovering. Since the WSJ hack happened overnight on a weekend, its impact will likely be more limited.”

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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.