Twitter says Facebook, Messenger accounts hacked - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

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 partner sat Facebook to restore them,” the Twitter spokesperson said. The account of Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked in August, allowing an unauthorized 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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