Mariah Carey Twitter account hacked on New Year’s Eve

Singer Mariah Carey’s account was hacked on New Year’s Eve.

Carey’s account tweeted dozens of off-the-wall and offensive statements which include racial slurs ahead of Twitter locked it.

Twitter verified that Carey’s account experienced been compromised.

“As shortly as we were built knowledgeable of the situation, we locked the compromised account and are at the moment investigating the predicament,” the corporation mentioned in a assertion despatched to United states of america Now Tuesday.

The hackers claimed to be The Chuckling Squad that in August broke into the Twitter account of Twitter CEO Jack’s Dorsey as properly as other celebs.

At the very least one arrest was created in the hacking of Dorsey’s Twitter account, in accordance to Motherboard. The hackers employed a strategy known as SIM-swapping, the place hackers trick a wireless supplier into handing around handle of a telephone selection.

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This is not the way that Carey most likely wished to provide 2019 to a near.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” served the superstar to develop into the very first artist to rule the Billboard Very hot 100 in four decades.

Messages which includes disparaging remarks such as “Eminem has a minimal penis.” #ChucklingSquad appeared on her account.

Some of Carey’s fans demanded the hackers go away her account by itself. Some others begged for the account to follow them.

One of the tweets from Mariah Carey's hacked Twitter account

A retweet from Mariah Carey's hacked Twitter account.

Just after hackers took control of Dorsey’s account, Twitter suspended accounts that the hackers retweeted and suspended the account that appeared to be liable for the hack.

In 2016, Dorsey’s account was taken over by the hacker team OurMine, which also attacked other significant-profile social media accounts including Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The Twitter CEO is a co-founder of the assistance, along with Biz Stone and Ev Williams and also serves as CEO of Square, the payments business.