Kylie Jenner’s Twitter Account HACKED With Racist And Lewd Messages
Kylie Jenner has become the latest star to have her Twitter account hacked with a series of racist and lewd messages being posted to her 16 million followers.
Following on from Jack Black’s ‘death’ hoax, the reality star’s account was infiltrated on Monday (June 6) with a string of tweets targeting celebrities like Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber.
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The first message read: “alex is a stupid N**** (sic)”, followed up with: “everybody type in the chat alex is a stupid n**** (sic).”
Another explicit tweet targeted her close friend Justin Bieber: “I want you c*** @JustinBieber”
The hacker continued their Twitter takeover by mocking the 18-year-old star, writing: “i love being so famous with no talent (sic).”
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This appears to be a different hacker to the one that gained access to Tenacious D’s account, since the person identified themselves as @lolsw4y, the same user who broke into Katy Perry’s Twitter account last week.
The offensive tweets were soon deleted from the account, but not before being screengrabbed by fans.
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In the absence of her Twitter account, Kylie took to SnapChat to share a short clip about the posts, while casually munching on some white chocolate covered pretzels – as you do.
In the video, she said: “Mmm, so my Twitter was hacked. And I don’t really care. I’m just letting them have fun.”
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Another of the Jenner hack tweets read: ‘well my sex tape with tyga was trash (sic)”, so the KUWTK star also took the opportunity to address the claim, explaining: “Everyone’s like “leak the sex tape!” Guys. You’re never gonna see a sex tape from me.”
Twitter has since suspended @sw4ylol’s account, but we’re not certain that the Hollywood hijackers are finished yet.
There have been a series of similar incidents over the last few days; Twenty One Pilots’ frontman Tyler Joseph confirmed that he had his account hacked on Saturday (June 4).
After regaining control of his account, the singer jokingly wrote: “whoever hacked my twitter, meet me out side. my friend josh wants to poke you in the eyes with his fists. (sic).”
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Country singer and former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler also appeared to have her account compromised after a series of offensive messages appeared on Sunday (June 5).
Rumours then circulated that Ozzy Osbourne’s Instagram account had been targeted by the cyber attackers after a series of strange images appeared; while Keith Richards, Tame Impala and Bon Iver have all had their social media accounts hacked over the weekend too.
It remains unclear whether these incidents are the result of a single person, a group of hackers that are connected to one another, or a group of individuals who are acting alone – but, Tenacious D’s hacker has recently claimed that he will infiltrate more celebrity accounts over the coming days.