Burger King (Burger King) Twitter account, release obscenity, and change its shape picture McDonald's mark.
Stop sing after an hour more, Burger King (Burger King) said it had to Twitter suspended account. Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a mobile phone last week to leave message.
Late on Sunday, Burger King (Burger King) chirps: "interesting day here, Burger King, but we came back! Welcome to our new followers. Hope you insist on around!"
Burger King (Burger King), usually sing several times a week, usually do so, in order to promote sales of chicken sandwich, or ask questions, such as how many bite to eat chicken.
But, the United States eastern time on Monday after noon, someone chirps through the Burger King (Burger King) account, "we just sold to McDonald's!" Their icon was changed, to rival McDonald's golden arches, the account of the background picture McDonald's new fish McBites.
About 55 chirping and retweets in the next hours of a quarter, including a few contain race nickname, drug use and obscene. This account chirps: "if I catch you, we are Wendys tourism fighting!"
Monday Burger King (Burger King) Twitter account funds is the network security question, these problems cause more and more attention in Washington and industry relatively mild example. The media, including the New York times, "the Wall Street journal" and "Washington post", say this year, their computer system destroyed, and several NBC website has carried on the brief hacker attacks in November. White House officials and some congressmen are seeking legislation, to make it easier for the government and industry information sharing on how to resist hackers.
Burger King (Burger King) don't know who is cracked account, and no other social media accounts are affected, cloth LaiSen Thornton said, headquarters is located in Miami Burger King (Burger King) global company social media team and external agency management Twitter account, but Thornton spokesman declined to say how many people know the account password. He says they hope to have this aspect of work, and again soon will issue a later Monday issued a statement on Facebook apologize chirping.
Twitter February 1 admit, network attacker may be stolen 250000 user name and password. It said at the time, it notify users of illegal behavior.
Rivals sympathy.
McDonald's in on Twitter response, it sympathy and burger king. "Stop worrying, we have nothing to do hackers."
"My real life nightmare plays out" Burger King (Burger King) Twitter feed, wrote Wendy social media workers Amy rose brown.
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