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Headline Roundup August 30th, 2019

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account Hacked

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked Friday afternoon, sending out several offensive tweets before Twitter's press team formally acknowledged the breach.

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Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s personal account hacked
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s personal account hacked

New York Post (News)

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@Jack might want to update his password.

The personal account of Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey was hacked Friday afternoon, which resulted in a barrage of bizarre and racist tweets from @jack — famous for sending out the first-ever tweet in March 2006.

At approximately 3:45 p.m., Dorsey’s account tweeted out “Shoutout Debut, Corey, NuBLoM, Joe, Owen, & Aqua,” apparently the names of a group of hackers calling themselves #ChucklingHella.

The account immediately went on to tweet out the N-word in all caps before adding: “intel is there’s a bomb...

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked

The Verge

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked on Friday afternoon by a group that calls itself the Chuckle Squad. Twitter’s communications team issued a statement via Twitter.

The hackers tweeted racial slurs from Dorsey’s account. Some offensive tweets were up for about 10 minutes, though not long after the hack began, those tweets were being deleted. The hackers also plugged a Discord serve, asking people to join it. (The server invitation link tweeted out by the hackers no longer works.) “Both the server and the server owner were permanently...

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was hacked
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was hacked

The Week - News

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Not even the guy who runs Twitter can keep his Twitter account safe from hackers, apparently.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was taken over on Friday, suddenly posting a series of racist and anti-Semitic messages, including one that was just the N-word in all caps. Another claimed there was a bomb at Twitter's headquarters.

Believe it or not, this isn't even the first time this has happened, with Engadget pointing out Dorsey also had his account taken over in 2016. This time, the group responsible seems to be the same...

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