BREAKING! Russia will attack U.S. with missiles, said hacked tweet from New York Times

Apparently the New York Times Twitter account was hacked this morning because they posted this very alarming tweet about Putin attacking the United States with missiles.

This tweet posted by @nytvideo is now deleted. pic.twitter.com/7gADCWi2IW

— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) January 22, 2017

We deleted a series of tweets published from this account earlier today without our authorization. We are investigating the situation.

— New York Times Video (@nytvideo) January 22, 2017

I can imagine being pretty concerned as that tweet scrolled by. On the other hand, it’ll probably come true eventually under this regime, so maybe the NYT should keep that in “drafts.”