San Francisco sources reported that as Twitterati searched for news regarding the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in the US, hackers compromised a verified employee's Twitter account to spread fake news in the midst of the attack. Accordingly a media report said a hacker hijacked the verified Twitter account of Vadim Lavrusik, who works as the Product Manager at the video sharing platform and used the profile to implicate a YouTube broadcaster in the shooting.
As per report the hoax tweets reportedly began posting 20 minutes after the executive marked himself safe apparently while he was near the shooting site. The report stated that "Even after Twitter executives became aware of the compromise, hoax tweets were still being regularly posted to Lavrusik's account, only to be instantly deleted".
As per latest report the person was killed and four others were wounded in
a shooting at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno in the US state of
California. Moreover Police officer Ed Barberini said the suspect, a female
shooter, appeared to have shot herself after injuring multiple people at the
campus of the YouTube facility on Tuesday and moreover the shooting took place
in an outdoor cafe at the YouTube campus which houses at least 1,700 employees.
