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Katy Perry’s Twitter Account With 90 Million Followers Hacked

Short Bytes: It looks like a hacker got access to pop-star Katy Perry’s Twitter account and tweeted strange messages to her 90 million followers. Included in those tweets, there was a message for Taylor Swift and other series of insults. This morning, things turned pretty confusing for the followers of Katy Perry when her Twitter […]

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter Account Hacked, Adult Site Added as ‘Following’

Image: Twitter Short Bytes: The Twitter account of Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest superstar, has been hacked and some adult sites have been added as ‘following’. A tweet from Mr. Bachchan’s official Twitter handler @SrBachhan says: “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t […]

South African Ministry of State Security’s Twitter Account Hacked

Last Saturday, the official Twitter account of South African Ministry of State Security @StateSecurityRS was hacked and diet loss Tweets were sent to its followers.  Eduard Kovacs of SoftPedia reports that spammer who hacked the account was using it for Tweeting infamous-diet tweets until the account was regained and password changed.  South African Ministry of State Security have confirmed that account […]

Burger King’s Twitter account hacked, defaced into McDonalds

The official Twitter account of Burger King was hacked and later defaced into official McDonald’s account. The account has now been suspended by Twitter administrators.  The funny hack came up few hours ago where The @BurgerKing account name was changed today to “McDonalds” and the Golden Arches’ familiar logo was added to the page, as was a message […]

#Twitterhack: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked

Some unknown hackers have infiltrated the social media website Twitter, as a result the account information of around 250,000 of its users have been hacked and stolen. Bob Lord, director of Information Security at Twitter, writes on his blog that:  Our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user […]

British Airways Twitter Account Hacked, Offensive Tweets Re-tweeted

The official Twitter account of British Airways was apparently hacked few days ago, an investigation has been launched if the account was hacked or misused. According to the sources, a racist and offensive message was retweeted from the official the company’s twitter account, The airline’s @British_Airways account has 211,609 followers. On Saturday it re-tweeted a message that used the racist […]

Twitter: No We were not Hacked by UgNazi

The news is out there that trend setting social media website twitter was taken down by new emerging hacking group UgNazi. The group took responsibility for taking down the website and creating login problems for over a two-hour period. However Twitter has denied all the hacking allegations, ‘‘ we were not hacked, that the site is […]

Brandy Norwood’s Twitter account hacked

Brandy Norwood, the famous American R&B singer, songwriter, producer, model, actress, and dancer is now victim of latest twitter hacking as her official twitter page has been hacked. Hacked account has over 1.5 million followers who were redirected to fake free downloads of her music on contactmusic.com.   Hacker posted Brandy’s  personal phone number, address and asking […]