Sony Music were forced to declare that Briteny Spears is alive and well after their Twitter account was hacked to say the pop babe was dead.

Fans were alarmed on December 26 when the official global twitter account for Britney’s record label declared she had died “by accident”.

However it was quickly revealed the account had been hacked to post false reports.

A post reading “RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016” was tweeted on Boxing day.

A second tweet followed, adding: “Briteny Spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon.”

However it quickly became apparent the music label’s account had been hacked, with a team member following up saying: “we saw a new IP logged in to the account a few minutes ago and the tweet is posted by a new IP so @britneyspears is still alive #OurMine”.

Phew!

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