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Britney Spears claimed to be dead in suspected 'hack' of Sony Twitter account
A Bob Dylan account also tweeted that Spears was dead.
AN OFFICIAL SONY Music Twitter account claimed that popstar Britney Spears was dead in what is suspected to have been a hack attack.
Spears has not passed away, CNN confirmed.
Sony Music Global posted the following tweets earlier today:
The tweets have since been deleted.
In addition, the official Bob Dylan Twitter account also tweeted similar tweets:
TMZ claims the ‘hack’ was the work of the OurMine group, which also claimed to have hacked a Netflix Twitter account earlier this month.
It has also previously hacked the accounts of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Sony has not commented on the incident.
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