Twitter says Facebook, Messenger accounts hacked
10 February, 2020
Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its own Messenger platform were hacked.
A Twitter spokesperson said within an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform.
“When we were made aware of the problem, we locked the compromised accounts and are working closely with this partners at Facebook to restore them,” the Twitter spokesperson said.
Separately, Facebook also confirmed that a few of its official social media accounts were hacked on Friday.
“Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we've secured and restored access,” Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne said.
The account of Twitter Inc LEADER Jack Dorsey was hacked in August, allowing an unauthorized person to send public tweets including racial slurs and curse words to his 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account.
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