The accounts were used to advertise a site selling products made scarce by COVID-19: face masks, forehead thermometers and toilet paper.
Tag Archives: hijacked Twitter accounts
Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hijacked
In full glare of the world, Facebook admins have found themselves in an unseemly struggle to wrestle back control of the company’s Twitter accounts.
Rats leave the sinking ship as hackers’ forum gets hacked
The OGUsers forum, which trades in hijacked social accounts, has been hacked, its hard drives wiped, and its user database published online.
Missile warning sent from hijacked Tampa mayor’s Twitter account
Tampa’s mayor was trying to regain control of his Twitter account this week after it was used to post bomb threats and child sex abuse images.
YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting
In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik’s account was hijacked.
Hello, Barack! Let’s keep that @POTUS account secure!
Let’s make sure that highly valuable account stays all you, all the time, without anyone else getting their mitts on it – at least, until somebody else becomes POTUS! 
Tesla and Elon Musk Twitter accounts and website hijacked, free Teslas offered
The website and Twitter account for sleek electric automaker Tesla Motors was taken over and defaced on Saturday, as was Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s personal Twitter account. 
Hijacked school Twitter account turns head teacher into a porn star
Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping and access to the school’s Twitter account to turn an unwitting head teacher into a beefcake.
Anonymous e-hijacks KKK in wake of threats against Ferguson protesters
Attackers affiliating themselves with the Anonymous brand of hacktivists have resulted in two hijacked Twitter accounts, doxing of alleged Ku Klux Klan members, and 4 DDoSed sites. 