Fake story hackers hit Qatar’s news agency

Qatar has started an inquiry into an security breach by hackers who posted fake news stories on highly sensitive regional political issues and attributed them to its ruler.

The emirate insisted the stories, posted on its official news agency website and Twitter account, were untrue. Among the topics supposedly addressed by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-thani were the Palestinianisraeli conflict, Hamas and strategic relations with Iran.