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Reuters hacked for third time with hoax al-Faisal death

News agency Reuters has been hacked for the third time in a month, with an article falsely claiming that Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Saud al-Faisal had died.

Hackers first hit the agency's blogging platform at the beginning of August, with claims that the Syrian rebel army was on the retreat.

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