A number of prominent Twitter accounts were hacked to tweet Nazi messages after Twitter Counter, a popular tool for analyzing Twitter followers, was hacked…
A number of prominent Twitter accounts were hacked to tweet Nazi messages after Twitter Counter , a popular tool for analyzing Twitter followers, was hacked.
Official Twitter accounts belonging to Amnesty International, Forbes and other prominent organizations, not to mention many regular users, were accessed to post swastikas and other Nazi-related messages in a move thought to be related to Turkey’s diplomatic spat with the Netherlands and Germany, the Guardian reported. The accounts themselves were not hacked. Instead, the attackers gained access to Twitter Counter’s service, which was then used to send the tweets.
The messages have since been deleted, but Amnesty was among those to confirm that it had been compromised.
Twitter Counter, which is owned by the same parent company as tech blog The Next Web*, confirmed the issue.
