text: By Paul Vigna 
   
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   The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged within minutes early this afternoon, after somebody hacked an AP Twitter account and posted a bogus tweet saying the White House had been attacked. 
   
   The Dow, which had been up about 130 points, fell into the red within two minutes, and then bounced back just as quickly as it became obvious that the “news” was false, and a prank. 
   
   White House spokesman Jay Carney quickly got on the air and dismissed the story. 
   
   “The president is fine,” Carney said. “I was just with him.” 
   
   The Dow was at 14698 when the bogus tweet hit. Within two minutes, the Dow had dropped 127 points and fallen into the red. It just as quickly rose (you can see this quite clearly in the chart). 
   
   Dow Jones Kaitlyn Kiernan reported: 
   
   “Stocks briefly erased a 125-point gain after a tweet from the Associated Press Twitter account erroneously claimed that there were two explosions in the White House and that President Barack Obama had been injured. The Associated Press said on its corporate website that its account had been hacked. The White House confirmed that there was no incident. “The AP’s servers got hacked. People quickly figured that out…see how temperamental the market is? The age of social media, if you’re allowed to monitor Twitter feeds like we are, we see that right away,” said Keith Bliss, senior vice president at brokerage firm Cuttone & Co. “Just goes to show, you shouldn’t have a knee-jerk reaction to anything that comes across Twitter.” 
   
   Here, for your edification, is a screenshot of the fake tweet. 
   
   What stands out to us is how many times that was retweeted, in the parlance of the Twitterverse: at least 1,849 people retweeted that before it was taken down. 
   
   The AP quickly dismissed the tweet: ||||| The Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday. Moments later, the Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the attack. 
   
   Just after 1 p.m., the news organization tweeted: 
   
   @AP 
   
   The Associated Press Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured 
   
   The message spread quickly, with Twitter users immediately wondering if the account had been hacked. The Associated Press' corporate communications account clarified the tweet was fake minutes later. 
   
   @AP_CorpComm 
   
   AP CorpComm That is a bogus tweet. 
   
   The AP's Sam Hananel, who writes about labor and employment issues, tweeted that the account had been hacked. 
   
   @SamHananelAP 
   
   Sam Hananel Please Ignore AP Tweet on explosions, we've been hacked. 
   
   The AP Stylebook account confirmed the hack. 
   
   @APStylebook 
   
   AP Stylebook The Twitter account has been suspended after it was hacked. The tweet about an attack on the White House was false. 
   
   CBS News reported that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed that "the president is fine," in response to the AP's Twitter feed. 
   
   The AP announced that it would be suspending its Twitter account in response to the hacking. The news organization added: 
   
   The tweet, which said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured, came after hackers made repeated attempts to steal the passwords of AP journalists. 
   
   The AP's Mike Baker tweeted that "the hack came less than an hour after some of us received an impressively disguised phishing email." The false alarm sent the Dow plunging 145 points between 1:08 p.m. ET and 1:10 p.m. The market quickly bounced back to roughly where it had been before the hack. 
   
   The Syrian Electronic Army, an organization that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, tweeted, 
   
   Twitter accounts for CBS News, including the "60 Minutes," "48 Minutes" and CBS Denver feeds, were also hacked last week. The Syrian Electronic Army was also reportedly responsible.
target: – Hackers got their hands on AP's Twitter feed today and briefly sent blood pressures racing with an afternoon tweet that President Obama had been injured in a pair of White House explosions, reports the Huffington Post. The real AP tweeted minutes later that it was a hoax and suspended the account. Incredibly, the Dow had been up 130 points before the tweet and lost all of it within a minute, reports the Wall Street Journal. Then it bounced right back to where it was when the hoax was revealed. No official word yet on who's behind the hack, though TMZ says it's the same group that has been "swatting" celebs with phony 911 calls.