In a highly unusual form of guerrilla marketing, hackers have breached the official Twitter and Instagram accounts of Facebook and its Messenger app, advertising their cyber security ‘services’ in a number of posts.
Twitter confirmed the hacks on Friday, with a spokesperson noting the company had “locked the compromised accounts” and is now “working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them.” The incident follows a series of hiccups on the platform, which caused widespread outages.
Facebook and Messenger accounts on Twitter both hacked … ouch! pic.twitter.com/YHHk44jg7p
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) February 7, 2020
Wow..this is so frightening. Somebody, or some entity, hacked Facebook's instagram account and posted this. Even scarier when you remember Facebook owns all of Instagram.
Update: Facebook's Twitter account was also just hacked. pic.twitter.com/qMBiHvjz8J
— John H. Meyer (@BEASTMODE) February 8, 2020
Source: RT