Last Sunday, Yahoo scared a lot of people with a Tweet. The tweet, which has now been deleted, came from account of Yahoo News και ανέφερε ότι παρατηρήθηκε ξέσπασμα της επιδημίας Έμπολα στην Ατλάντα των ΗΠΑ. Ανέφερε ότι 145 άνθρωποι έχουν μολυνθεί μέχρι στιγμής από γιατρούς που ήλθαν με μια πτήση από την Αφρική. Το μήνυμα εξαπλώθηκε αμέσως με 900 περίπου retweets και 125 favorites πριν η εταιρεία καταφέρει να το διαγράψει.
The tweet was obviously not real, and it seems that the Twitter account of the company was hijacked by a hacker. 15 minutes later from the unfortunate incident, Yahoo he apologized, claiming that "an unauthorized tweet containing misinformation about Ebola was sent from this account," and asked its followers to "ignore it".
The message was deleted soon after, but several users began mocking the company, reporting that the Yahoo News account had finally changed its password. accesss from “yahoo123” to something else.
The Yahoo News account has more than 816.000 followers and has sent over 72.400 tweets since its Twitter registration date in July 2007.
