NY Post Falls Victim to Insider Threat

A malicious employee was behind hateful, violent messages on the Posts website and Twitter account, the paper has confirmed.

New York Post readers are accustomed to cheeky headlines, but Thursday morning the news outlets website and Twitter account were plastered with racist, violent, and explicit messages targeting politicians.
The New York Post has been hacked, an early morning
tweet from the Posts account
explained. We are currently investigating the cause.
The messages have been removed, but they targeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden; New York City Mayor Eric Adams; Texas Governor Greg Abbott; and Ill. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, along with others.
One of the tweets sent by the malicious insider read, We must destroy and imprison Union teachers.
The site and the New York Posts Twitter feed are currently functioning normally. But the incident highlights the danger that
insider threats
, armed with credentials, can pose to a business.
The New York Posts investigation indicates that the unauthorized conduct was committed by an employee, and we are taking appropriate action, a spokesperson for the publication said in a statement
following the incident
. This morning, we immediately removed the vile and reprehensible content from our website and social media accounts.

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