A hacker used a hole in Wired's security to post an authentic looking story saying that Steve Jobs had a heart attack.

The story was widely circulated across the world wide wibble and Wired has had to print a disclaimer. Someone created a legitimate-looking Web page using Wired's public upload image viewer, which generates a page containing an image under a Wired logo banner, Wired said.

This particular hole has been patched to prevent anyone else doing it again. Most people wised up to the fakeness of the posting.  It had misspellings and grammatical problems and implied that Steve Jobs had a heart. If Jobs' ticker did go on the blink it would be a surprise for most people in the industry who thought it was his pancreas which was about to pack in.

Jobs, who had surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, announced this month that he will take a medical leave of absence to treat a hormone imbalance.