{"id":9981,"date":"2013-04-23T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9981"},"modified":"2013-04-23T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T00:17:02","slug":"hacked-ap-twitter-feed-brings-nyse-flash-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9981","title":{"rendered":"Hacked AP Twitter Feed Brings NYSE &#8216;Flash Crash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the U.S. stock market hitting all-time record highs again of late, it&#8217;d be understandable for some to think strength and confidence has returned to the stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But if today&#8217;s mid-day &#8220;flash crash&#8221; &#8212; which saw the S&#038;P Index <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-23\/fake-report-erasing-136-billion-shows-market-s-fragility.html?cmpid=yhoo\">lose $136 billion in a matter of four minutes<\/a> as AP&#8217;s Twitter feed was <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/ap-twitter-account-hacked-posts-message-claiming-obama?ref=fpblg\">hacked to announce<\/a>, inaccurately, that a bomb had gone off in the White House &#8212; is any indication, that&#8217;s hardly the case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DowIndustrial_FlashCrash_042313.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DowIndustrial_FlashCrash_042313_420.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be delighted to know, of course, that the same <strike>casino<\/strike>, stock market immediately gained almost all of its losses back in almost the same amount of time it took to lose them, ultimately ending the day at another near-record high. Step right up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the U.S. stock market hitting all-time record highs again of late, it&#8217;d be understandable for some to think strength and confidence has returned to the stock exchange. But if today&#8217;s mid-day &#8220;flash crash&#8221; &#8212; which saw the S&#038;P Index lose $136 billion in a matter of four minutes as AP&#8217;s Twitter feed was hacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,390,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ap","category-economy","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9981"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}