Singer Britney Spears performs onstage during 102.7 KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2016 presented by Capital One at Staples Center on December 2, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo : Getty Images/Mike Windle)
This year, a lot of celebrities have been victims of death hoaxes. From Carlos Santana to Chinese global superstar Jackie Chan and to Grammy Award-winning rapper Eminem, 2016 has been a year of false celebrity deaths. Before the end of the year, pop superstar Britney Spears became a victim of the said hoax.
In Sony Music's Twitter account, which was allegedly hacked, the user posted two tweets claiming Spears' death. The tweets read "RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016" and "Britney spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon #RIPBritney," CNN has learned.
The now-deleted tweets caused an uproar on Twitter. Nobel Prize in Literature winner Bob Dylan also believed of the news as he even tweeted in his account, "Rest in peace @britneyspears," but eventually deleted it.
Spears' manager, Adam Leber, quickly dismissed the news and said that his talent is alive and okay and added that Sony Music's Twitter account might have been hacked. In a statement obtained by Variety on Dec. 26, Monday, Sony Music said their Twitter account was compromised and they apologize to the "If You See Amy" songstress and her fans for the confusion caused by the hoax news.
After confirmation that Spears was alive, hacking group OurMine, which is responsible for the recent hacking of Neflix's and Marvel's Twitter account, took over Sony Music's Twitter account and wrote their that they were not responsible for the hacking and that Spears was alive. The famous hacking group tweeted, "we saw a new IP logged in to the account a few minutes ago and the tweet is posted by a new IP so britney is still alive #OurMine."
Watch the video below to see what happened about Spears' death hoax:
