The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, the CEO of the social media platform, was hacked on Friday and used to broadcast racial slurs and a bomb threat.
Shortly before 1pm Friday, Dorsey’s @jack account tweeted a link to a Discord chat and RT’d a series of tweets, including one that read, “follow me i am jacks daddy.” The account also tweeted a string of racist slurs and a bomb threat directed at Twitter’s headquarters. The tweets were removed about 15 minutes after being posted.
A Twitter spokesperson said the company is investigating the issue.
Discord took down the server hosting the chat tweeted by the @jack account, according to a source.
The tweets were posted to Twitter through an app called Cloudhopper, which was acquired by Twitter in 2010 and enables SMS-based tweeting.
In 2017, Twitter beefed up its login verification, adding the ability to add an authenticator app, in addition to SMS text messages, as an extra layer of security, in order to mitigate hacked accounts on the platform.
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