BBC News Sends Weird 'Game of Thrones' Breaking News Alert

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Neha Prakash
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BBC News Sends Weird 'Game of Thrones' Breaking News Alert
A general view of BBC headquarters in London on Nov, 11, 2012. Credit: Alastair Grant

Breaking news: Something fishy's going on at the BBC.

Users of the BBC News app received a very odd push alert on Wednesday.

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To be fair, no nudity on Game of Thrones would definitely qualify as headline news, but the rest of the nonsensical push notification pointed to either a hack job, or more likely, a very bored app developer.

The same push alert was also sent a second time to users. BBC News quickly issued an apology, saying the message occurred because of a "testing error" and not any hacking or foul play.

Re two incorrect @BBCNews push notifications sent earlier. This was result of a testing error. The account has not been hacked.— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) June 25, 2014

Just a heads up for the future, BBC: This is why "Testing 1, 2, 3" was invented.

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