Yahoo Finance ‘Disturbing’ Hitler tweets: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account hacked
Ironically, Twitter’s CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, has had his account hacked by a group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad.
The hackers tweeted racial slurs and a Holocaust denial (‘Hitler is innocent’) from Dorsey’s account, before asking Dorsey to unblock certain accounts.
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The tweets were only up for about 10 minutes, The Verge reported, but social media users described them ‘disturbing’.
lol I was so busy toiling in the content mines today that I missed @jack's account getting stolen by the very people he refuses to remove from this cursed website https://t.co/FsemD447JZ
— Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) August 30, 2019
Twitter has since tweeted that they are “investigating what happened” and that “the account is now secure”.
The account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter's systems have been compromised.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019
“Encouraging any kind of hacking is in direct violation of our Terms of Service,” a representative said. “We will continue to monitor and investigate this incident.”
It’s not the first time the Twitter CEO’s account has been hacked. In 2016, one security firm hacked Dorsey to send out a message about ‘testing your security’.
Today’s hack seems to be from the same group that hacked YouTube celebrities James Charles, Shane Dawson and King Bach last week.
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