It’s been a big 24 hours for high profile Twitter hacks, notably Burger King, and now Jeep both losing control of their accounts to hacker groups.
UPDATE: MTV and their 6.6 million followers have also been victimized!
UPDATE 2: The MTV hack was apparently a self-inflicted attempt to grab some social media attention.
Heading over to Twitter.com/Jeep and you’ll find choice tweets like:
You’ll never catch @50cent ridin in a Dirty Ass @jeep !!!! #ForDaLuLz #FreeJeep
— Jeep (@Jeep) February 19, 2013
First Burger King now @jeep has been hacked. Glad people have so much pointless time on their hands
— Johnny Teater (@johnnyteater) February 19, 2013
Does @burgerking have any advice for Jeep?
— Andrew (@helloandrewc) February 19, 2013
Sorry guys… no more @jeep production because we caught our CEO doing this… twitter.com/Jeep/status/30…
— Jeep (@Jeep) February 19, 2013
We got sold to @cadillac because we caught our employees doing these in the bathroom =[ twitter.com/Jeep/status/30…
— Jeep (@Jeep) February 19, 2013
Meanwhile, MTV now has troubles of their own with choice tweets such as:
ON A SCALE OF 1 TO RATCHET, HOW MUCH BETTER ARE THE @bet AWARDS THAN THE VMAS??? #MTVHACK
— HACKED MTV! (@MTV) February 19, 2013
MMM. THIS BURGER TASTES GOOD!!!!!!!!!! #MTVHack
— HACKED MTV! (@MTV) February 19, 2013
#BETEXPERIENCE: bet.us/BETX13 #MTVHACK
— HACKED MTV! (@MTV) February 19, 2013
Seems to me that companies need to take their password security a little more seriously so that these things don’t happen. It’s a serious black eye on the brand.
They just sorted it all out, all is under control.
They did a whole lot better than BK taking back control.