The real pop Pop star Taylor Swift became the latest celebrity to conduct maintain their social media accounts hacked on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old "Shake It Off" singer, who has the fourth-most pop Twitter concern human relationship with 51.4 1000000 followers, appeared to live on bespeak her millions of followers to follow @veriuser as well as @lizzard.
Swift confirmed that her Twitter as well as Instagram accounts were hacked on Tuesday afternoon, as well as also that the rogue posts were apace removed from the social media websites.
"My Twitter got hacked but don't worry, Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets as well as locking my concern human relationship until they tin forcefulness out figure out how this happened as well as teach me novel passwords," said a statement posted on Swift's personal Tumblr page.
The accounts were taken for but fifteen minutes, but when it belongs to Taylor Swift, that makes it a large hit. At the time, a Tweet went out from @TaylorSwift13 to her millions of fans, saying, "go follow my boy, @lizzard :)"
Yes Lizzards are the same guys who latterly took downwards Sony's PlayStation game networks, alongside other things, equally @lizzard profile claimed to live on the "Leader of Lizard Squad" — the hacking grouping that's ostensibly behind this attack.
The hackers non exclusively took over her social media accounts, but also threatened Taylor Swift to liberate hither nude pictures, on which the pop star says "none existed."
"Any hackers maxim they conduct maintain 'nudes'?" Swift tweeted later on retaking command of her Twitter account. "Psssh you'd dearest that wouldn't you! Have fun photo-shopping cause you lot got NOTHING."
An Instagram photograph sent out from Swift's concern human relationship with over twenty 1000000 followers urged her fans to follow but about other user supposedly involved inwards the Twitter hack.
Both the Instagram photograph as well as the rogue Tweets from her accounts conduct maintain vanished. However, @lizzard as well as @veriuser's Twitter accounts conduct maintain been suspended yesteryear Twitter.
Swift fifty-fifty mimicked the lyrics to her hitting "Shake It Off" yesteryear tweeting, "Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack ..."
Though, hacking the 4th largest profile on Twitter makes the hack i of the higher-profile breaches that has occurred on the network.
