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| ‘Even you are hackable’: Facebook’s Twitter & Instagram accounts hacked, trolled with cybersecurity services offer | |
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| In a highly unusual form of guerrilla marketing, hackers have breached the official Twitter and Instagram accounts of Facebook and its Messenger app, advertising their cyber security ‘services’ in a number of posts. | In a highly unusual form of guerrilla marketing, hackers have breached the official Twitter and Instagram accounts of Facebook and its Messenger app, advertising their cyber security ‘services’ in a number of posts. |
| Twitter confirmed the hacks on Friday, with a spokesperson noting the company had “locked the compromised accounts” and is now “working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them.” The incident follows a series of hiccups on the platform, which caused widespread outages. | Twitter confirmed the hacks on Friday, with a spokesperson noting the company had “locked the compromised accounts” and is now “working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them.” The incident follows a series of hiccups on the platform, which caused widespread outages. |
| The hackers made trollish posts to each of the breached accounts, stating “Hi, we are OurMine. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security [is] better than Twitter.” | The hackers made trollish posts to each of the breached accounts, stating “Hi, we are OurMine. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security [is] better than Twitter.” |
| Twitter is no stranger to high-profile hacks, with their own CEO Jack Dorsey’s handle compromised last August by pranksters, who briefly sent out a series of racial slurs and nonsensical posts to his 4 million followers. | Twitter is no stranger to high-profile hacks, with their own CEO Jack Dorsey’s handle compromised last August by pranksters, who briefly sent out a series of racial slurs and nonsensical posts to his 4 million followers. |
| More than ten thousand Twitter users experienced outages earlier on Friday, with a company representative stating the ability to tweet was temporarily “broken,” prompting a wave of conspiracy theories from netizens suspicious about the timing of the glitch. | More than ten thousand Twitter users experienced outages earlier on Friday, with a company representative stating the ability to tweet was temporarily “broken,” prompting a wave of conspiracy theories from netizens suspicious about the timing of the glitch. |
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