Originally published at: @jack Allegedly Hacked, Says “Nigger” and Praises Hitler | Infostormer.com
Jack Dorsey the CEO of Twitter who uses the handle @jack was allegedly hacked. This after @jack said “nigger” and praised Adolf Hitler.
The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the social media platform, was hacked on Friday.
One of the first tweets sent from his “compromised” account was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler.
More than a dozen racist or otherwise offensive original tweets were sent within 20 minutes from the account.
Among the tweets was a link to a message board on the chat service Discord. The users in the chat had spelled out “DONALD TRUMP” in emojis on one of the boards. Some of the users in the chat claimed they were attempting to rifle through Dorsey’s private direct messages while they still had access to the account, but found the task too hard to manage.
Twitter issued the following response.
The phone number associated with the account was compromised due to a security oversight by the mobile provider. This allowed an unauthorized person to compose and send tweets via text message from the phone number. That issue is now resolved.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 31, 2019
My assumption is that Dorsey had 2-factor authentication via SMS text configured with his account, and that somebody may have done some social engineering on the phone carrier’s customer support people to get access to his account. But I’m just speculating.
Or who knows, maybe Dorsey has had enough of niggers and has discovered how great Hitler was. Twitter customer support could just be covering up this fact.
