{"id":97483,"date":"2014-02-25T02:06:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=97483"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T07:07:44","slug":"vodacom-twitter-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/97483-vodacom-twitter-account-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom Twitter account hacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom<\/a>\u2019s official Twitter account seems to have been hacked.<\/p>\n

The account started repeatedly posting the same tweet 2\u20133 times per minute from about 01:10 on the morning of Tuesday, 25 February 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fastest way to burn off fat & lose weight featured & recommended from Dr Oz. show,\u201d the tweet read, followed by a link that had been pushed through a URL shortener.<\/p>\n

Testing a sample of the hyperlinks at the end of the tweets suggested that even though they looked different (thanks to the URL shortener), they all pointed to the same site.<\/p>\n

Vodacom’s Twitter account was also posting reply messages to other users with what seemed to be a link to a phishing site.<\/p>\n

A Vodacom spokesperson was not immediately available to comment in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Vodacom removed the weight loss tweets on Tuesday, with the message “Seems the hacking gremlins were hard at work on our timeline last night. Apologies for the tweets.”<\/p>\n

\"Vodacom<\/a>

Vodacom Twitter account posting spam – 25 February 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

More SA security news<\/h3>\n

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City of Joburg selling email addresses?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BidorBuy forums hit with stealthy hack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA networks mum on NSA spying<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Subpoenas for ISP info issued in City of Joburg \u201chacking\u201d: source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official Twitter account for Vodacom appeared to be compromised early Tuesday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":88401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14575,461,35,18524,16784,41],"class_list":["post-97483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-hack","tag-hacking","tag-headline","tag-information-security-infosec","tag-twitter-hack","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97511,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97483\/revisions\/97511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}