Twitter is no stranger to embarrassing, high-profile hack attacks. And today, Netflix is joining others like Newsweek, the CFO of Twitter itself, the New York Post, UPI, CNN, and The Onion after a hacking group apparently gained access to its Twitter account and Tweeted a few odd things.
Twitter users started noticing strange posts coming from Netflix’s main U.S. page, @Netflix, that mentioned the hacking group. That weird behavior prompted some users to reach out to the company to see what was going on. Netflix acknowledged the problem via its customer service Twitter account a little after 9 a.m. ET:
As of 10:30 a.m. ET, Netflix’s page appears to have returned to normal. We’ve reached out to Netflix for more information and will update this post when we hear back.
Mashable notes that the hacking group in question is well known for breaching high-profile social media accounts, including Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams (Twitter), Sundar Pichai (Google), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), BuzzFeed, and Forbes.
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist