CBS Twitter accounts suspended

The Twitter accounts of two popular television programmes in the US have been compromised and suspended.

A CBS News spokeswoman confirmed that tweets sent yesterday from the 60 Minutes and 48 Hours Twitter handles which said their accounts were compromised were correct.

The tweets said the network was working with Twitter to investigate. Last night, both accounts were suspended and inaccessible.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The CBS spokeswoman did not comment further.

Earlier yesterday, tweets from the 60 Minutes account seemed far-fetched, including one that claimed the US government was “hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing”.