2017-03-15
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A number of prominent Twitter accounts were compromised early Wednesday morning by a group purporting to support the message of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Accounts including Forbes, the NHL Network and the Atlanta Police Department were sending out the same message condemning the Netherlands and Germany.
This bio on the @HPPhilippines Twitter page reads really ironically #TwitterHackhttps://t.co/yvIEzEk1Eg pic.twitter.com/RQgyDjaIzW
— Kyle Buis (@kylebuis) March 15, 2017
The entry method for the attack is unknown at this time. Twitter has taken action against some of the compromised accounts, suspending their access.