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Twitter CEO Account Hacked, Offensive Tweets Posted

Agence France-Presse

   SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Friday the account of chief executive Jack
   Dorsey had been "compromised" after a series of erratic and offensive
   messages were posted.

   The tweets containing racial slurs and suggestions about a bomb showed
   up around 2000 GMT on the @jack account of the founder of the short
   messaging service before being deleted.

   Some of the tweets contained the hashtag #ChucklingSquad, which was
   believed to indicate the identity of the hacker group. The same calling
   card was left behind during recent hacks of other high-profile social
   media personalities.

   The messages contained racial epithets, and included a retweet of a
   message supporting Nazi Germany.

   "We're aware that @jack was compromised and (are) investigating what
   happened," a Twitter spokesperson said.

   Tweets up for 30 minutes

   The San Francisco-based firm followed up midafternoon with a Twitter
   post saying Dorsey's account was secured and there was "no indication
   that Twitter's systems have been compromised."

   It appeared that tweets posted on Dorsey's account by the hacker were
   up for about a half-hour before they were removed.

   Pinned atop Dorsey's account was a tweet from early last year saying:
   "We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health,
   openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves
   publicly accountable towards progress."

   A barrage of comments fired off on the platform questioned why the
   Twitter co-founder didn't secure his account with two-factor
   authentication, and how disturbing a sign it was that the service
   wasn't to keep its own chief safe on the platform.

   "If you can't protect Jack, you can't protect ... jack," one Twitter
   user quipped.

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