Piers Morgan ‘s Twitter account was hacked in a single day by a foul-mouthed troll who tweeted plenty of racial slurs whereas calling for the ‘territorial integrity’ of Somalia.
Twitter customers together with lots of Morgan’s 8 million followers have been shocked to see Morgan’s account sending out expletive-laden messages.
It quickly turned obvious that the the previous newspaper editor and tv character’s account had been hacked by a gaggle figuring out themselves because the ‘chuckling squad’.
The hack went on for nearly one hour earlier than the web page was then fully wiped.
The Twitter account belonging to Piers Morgan was hacked in a single day with a troll asking for the ‘territorial integrity of Somalia to be acknowledged’
Morgan’s Twitter account was hacked in a single day by a foul-mouthed troll who tweeted plenty of racial slurs whereas calling for Somalian independence
Hackers modified 57-year-old Morgan’s account identify a number of occasions and used offensive language to rename it.
One tweet even said ‘f*** the queen,’ whereas one other referred to Ed Sheeran utilizing an offensive identify.
Followers and followers shortly responded, with some petitioning Twitter to handle the hack and others asking the hackers to entry Morgan’s Direct Messages to uncover his previous communications with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Some even interacted with the hacked account, requesting the discharge of Morgan’s DMs.
The hack appeared to final for an hour or so earlier than Morgan’s web page was fully wiped
Twitter customers together with lots of Morgan’s 8 million followers have been shocked to see Morgan’s account sending out expletive-laden messages. Morgan is pictured on his Instagram
The hack additionally focused different celebrities, together with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and brought on chaos on the platform for about an hour earlier than Twitter was in a position to take management of the scenario and eradicating all the offensive tweets.
A message stating ‘This Tweet is unavailable’ changed the offending messages.
The bio and pictures on Morgan’s account have been additionally eliminated, successfully ending the hack however the episode serves to spotlight the significance of securing one’s account and the potential penalties of falling sufferer to a hack.
The group purportedly behind the assault, Chuckling Squad, is a gaggle of hackers who gained notoriety in 2019 for taking on plenty of high-profile Twitter accounts, together with these belonging to varied celebrities and public figures.
The hacker, or hackers, have claimed to be part of the group The Chuckling Squad, but it surely has but to be confirmed by officers.
The group has claimed accountability for plenty of high-profile hacks previously and have used ‘SIM swapping assaults’ as a way by which a hacker takes management of a sufferer’s telephone quantity by tricking or coercing a telephone firm into transferring the quantity to a SIM card that the hacker controls.
