{"id":696088,"date":"2019-08-31T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"\">\n\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer of popular social media platform, Twitter, Jack Dorsey witnessed an unusual event on Friday night as hackers breached his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_702962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachm"},"modified":"2019-08-31T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:57:08","slug":"twitter-c-e-o-jack-dorseys-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/31\/twitter-c-e-o-jack-dorseys-account-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Account Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer of popular social media platform, Twitter, Jack Dorsey witnessed an unusual event on Friday night as hackers breached his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_702962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-702962\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-702962\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_20190831-0728222.png\" alt=\"Jack Dorsey\" width=\"720\" height=\"474\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-702962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter boss, Jack Dorsey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A group of hackers known as the Chuckling Squad took control over Jack\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Twitter shares tumbles 17% as monthly users decline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Offensive tweets which include racial slurs, antisemitic messages and at least one Holocaust denial were tweeted out by the hackers in 10 minutes of being in control of Dorsey\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Dorsey\u2019s unauthorized tweets were broadcast to more than 4 million users and sent Twitter into a frenzy, with many actively tagging Twitter Security and Twitter Communications, hoping to alert them to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Few minutes after the hack, Twitter tweeted that \u201cthe account is now secure, and there is no indication that Twitter\u2019s systems have been compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See tweet below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re aware that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">@jack<\/a> was compromised and investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/status\/1167528672523210752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">August 30, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive Officer of popular social media platform, Twitter, Jack Dorsey witnessed an unusual event on Friday night as hackers breached his Twitter account. 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