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Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook and its Messenger platform were hacked.
A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a third-party platform.
“As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised accounts and are working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them,” the Twitter spokesperson said.
Separately, Facebook also confirmed that some of its official social media accounts were hacked on Friday.
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“Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access,” Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne said.
Cryptic messages on the Twitter accounts for @Facebook and its messaging app @Messenger appeared after the hack, reading: “Hi, we are O u r M i n e. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.”
The hacker group included an email and website to contact to “improve your accounts security”.
The incident resembles similar hacks of the Twitter accounts for the National Football League and sports broadcaster ESPN in January. In that instance the hacker OurMine took responsibility.
OurMine has also been tied to a hack of The New York Times’ Twitter account.
The account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was hacked in August, allowing an unauthorised person to send public tweets including racial slurs and curse words to his 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account.


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The Twitter accounts for Facebook and its Messenger app were briefly compromised
During the hack, posts appeared on the Twitter accounts, including ‘Well, even Facebook is hackable’ and ‘improve your accounts security’



After the hack, tweets appeared on the accounts for Facebook and its Messenger app, reading: ‘Well, even Facebook is hackable’.


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