Chaos reigned this afternoon when hackers took over the Huffington Post's Twitter feed, sending out a series of racist, homophobic, and anti-English tweets to their 1.5 million followers. And they seem to be fans of the New York Post, writing, "Sup bitches? Hacked by: New York Post" and "New York Post rules!!!" Huff Post were able to quickly take their account back and delete all the offensive tweets, but you can see them all lovingly preserved below. And in a cruel twist of fate, Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account was also hacked around the same time. Is this what the Mayans have been going on about for centuries?
A Huffington Post representative confirmed that they "were indeed hacked for a brief time" Sunday afternoon. The hacker, whose handle is "cloverfdch," appears to be the same one who showed up on Democratic Alaska Senator Mark Begich's account on New Year's Eve, as well as on the Wonder Girls Official Twitter account in October. You can see more traces of the hackers web presence here and here.
Last year, there were several prominent Twitter hacks of news sites, including NBC News and Fox News. It's unclear whether the Huff Post one was connected to Kutcher's hacking (his second in the last year), but it seems that he might have the last laugh on his hacker: "Ok mr hacker, you only made one mistake. You hacked my Foursquare and I now know your address. Whoops.... This is gonna be fun." He followed that by tweeting a picture of the hacker's location.
