Yesterday morning, Britney Spears’ Twitter account was one of 33 high-profile accounts to be hacked on the micro-blogging service…

Reports Fox News, who was also hacked (though their false Tweet was: “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay.”):

The hackers found a way to take over the online tools used by Twitter’s support team to post the false updates or tweets, Twitter said in a blog posting.

During the security breach, Britney Spears falsely posted about the size of her genitals, Barack Obama (who has not used Twitter since his election victory) posted a link to a poll with the prize of winning free gasoline, Rick Sanchez said he was not coming into the office because he was high on crack cocaine and Facebook listed a link to a pornography site.

TechCrunch suggests that this was all the work of a hacker named GMZ on the Digital Gangster forums, the same forums that gave us boat-loads of Miley Cyrus photos when her Gmail account was hacked.