33 - year - previous IT consultant Sohaib Athar was just hanging out on Sunday at dwelling house in Abbottabad , Pakistan , when he heard an burst and a helicopter hovering above . He start tweetingwhat was going on , and ended up unwittingly live - blogging the maraud that killed Osama Bin Laden . Athar has become become such an internet fame that his website ’s been hacked .
According to internet security lab Websense , someone installed code on Athar ’s blog that attempts to install malware on any visitors ’ computers . That ’s potentially a lot of people , yield that Athar ( handle : ReallyVirtual ) now has over 70,000 followers thanks to his citizen reportage . ( After his Al Jazeera appearing , scheduled for later today , he ’ll probably have even more . )
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