The Associated Press said on its corporate website that its account had been hacked. 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. @AP_CorpComm 
 
 AP CorpComm That is a bogus tweet. “I was just with him.” 
 
 The Dow was at 14698 when the bogus tweet hit. 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 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. The market quickly bounced back to roughly where it had been before the hack.
– 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.