ABC News and ‘Good Morning America’s’ Twitter Handle Hacked! 

Hackers tweeted several posts using profane language and false news reports on the official Twitter handles.
Natasha Mahesh
India
Updated:
ABC and Good Morning America’s Twitter handle was hacked on Thursday. (Photo: Screenshot/Twitter/Altered by The Quint)


ABC and Good Morning America’s Twitter handle was hacked on Thursday. (Photo: Screenshot/<a href="mailto:&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot; data-lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;.&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ABC&quot;&gt;@ABC&lt;/a&gt; is apparently hacked on Twitter, have pronounced &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator&quot;&gt;@tylerthecreator&lt;/a&gt; as dying on a tour bus crash and other crazy fake news. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/B3YepsmkO4&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/B3YepsmkO4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/844861066056126466&quot;&gt;March 23, 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;script async src=&quot;//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;">Twitter</a>/Altered by <b>The Quint</b>)
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The official Twitter handles of ABC News and Good Morning America were hacked on Thursday.

On the ABC News Twitter handle, hackers tweeted several posts using profane language as well as false news reports, such as rapper Tyler, The Creator dying in tour bus crash.

ABC News Twitter Handle, posters tweeted several posts using profane language. (Photo: Screenshot/Twitter/Altered by The Quint)

In addition, one tweet wrote “follow CNN for real news, our news is wack”. CNN is one of ABC News’ biggest competitors.

Tweet asking to follow CNN for real news. (Photo: Screenshot/Twitter)

Along with the news network, the reputed show, Good Morning America’s Twitter handle wrote “Trump is our lord and savior #thankgodforTHEDONALD.” Another tweet claiming to be“Russian hackers”, said they were in “love” with US President Donald Trump.

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Tweets and retweets of both handles were promptly deleted. ABC News and Good Morning America’s Twitter page have not commented about the incident. However, the Twitter handle of ABC News PR has confirmed about the hacking of ABC news, Good Morning America, and Good Morning America Pop News.

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Published: 23 Mar 2017,08:39 PM IST

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