A news ticker was hacked in Siberia to insult Vladimir Putin, reports said. Putin is a "thief', said the hijacked news ticker in Siberian oil town Surgut. It came after the value of the ruble plunged against the dollar. 100 rubles to the dollar – you've lost your fucking mind," read the news ticker in Surgut, an oil town in Siberia, reported Max Seddon, the Financial Times' Moscow bureau chief. According to Russian independent outlet The Insider, the news ticker was run by the Russian news agency SIA-Press.

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Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, you've, Max Seddon, Taras Samborsky Organizations: Service, Financial Times, SIA, Press Locations: Siberia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Moscow, Russian