HuffPo Twitter Hacked? Anti-Gay and Racist Tweets Come from Site’s Official Account
- Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:24pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Followers of the Huffington Post’s official Twitter feed may have notice some surprising tweets Sunday afternoon.
At some point between tweets linking to pieces on the Golden Globes to others on famous Martin Luther King Jr. quotes and speeches, a hacker posing as the New York Post got a hold of the Huffing Post’s Twitter handle, unloading a stream of odd and offensive comments.
Administrators of the Twitter account followed by over 1.4 million soon realized the hacking, deleting the offensive tweets followed by an explanation of the odd comments:
The feed was soon churning out its usual tweets linking back to Huffington Post stories as if nothing had happened.
BuzzFeed notes that the Huffington Post hacker went by “cloverfdch,” who appears to have been the same hacker that showed up on Democratic Alaska Senator Mark Begich‘s Twitter account on New Year’s Eve.
In addition to the Huffington Post hacking that was taking place on Sunday, someone other than Ashton Kutcher was manning his famed @aplusk Twitter account. Kutcher’s Foursquare account was aslo hacked, leading the former That 70s Show star to boast that he now has the hacker’s address and appears determined to find the cyber troublemaker:
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One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:45pmThose tweets coincide just fine with the banal commentary found over at those Huff and Puff Po web properties, the same people who spent weeks last year destroying the Palin‘s downs child Trig on the same ’web tour’ per se, by the way most will remember well.
Any of those leftist websites are the equivalent of verbal landfills littering all over the webscape.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:25pmDoes Huffington Post even have any Twitter followers? I bet nobody even saw those tweets.
Report Post »rnhaith
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:52pmThe truth means nothing to people anymore……the first subject is clearly WRONG !!! AN ABOMINATION…NASTY…FILTHY…..the 2nd is used to cry wolf…..make excuses for telling the truth…..IS OBSOLETE !!!!
Report Post »bets
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:57amSo who got fired?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 5:01amRiiiiigggghhttt!! Sounds to me like someone got let go, and is Pissed!
Report Post »TammyChicago
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:48pmLooks like the Puffington Ho had herself one too many martinis.
Report Post »dawgGoodie
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 12:38pmEventually she will come apart clouded in a glorious spew of honesty, unable to support her ongoing hypocrisy.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:44pmHuh, well that’s pretty lolz, ha ha ha.
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:41pmThey weren’t hacked they just have kept it in so long they felt the need to finally vent, and blame it on hacking……The real truth finally revealed.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:31pmAnthony Weiner swore someone hacked him to, wasn’t he one of their fair haired boys??
OMG
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:28pmHuffpo. Bought and paid for by Soros. They should rename it Huffsore.
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:38pmCouldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of douche bags
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:16pmIt wasn’t hacked, that is SOP for PuffPo.
Speaking of that, wonder if it was either Encinom or Your Sensei that made those tweets…
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:15pmHuff’in-Puff hacked…..They are Hacks! Dinga-Ling Huffington is one of the 1%, but don’t tell her serfs that worship her site. They need the crumbs that drop off her table to survive….
Report Post »politicojim
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:04pmtrue dat….
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:38pmThe censor at Huffington is like their mommy who won’t let all the little sissyboys see an opposing opinion, she is like the mommy covering the eyes of the little boys and telling them in reassuring tones not to worry and that they shouldn’t even see those mean old conservative viewpoints or facts.
What happens is that they get a skewed sense of reality when some of the obviously absurd liberal points they make get no conservative response. They think it is because they have made a good argument, but the reality is the conservative points have been blocked by their mommy censor.
Report Post »DetritusScreener
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:09pmI have had the same problem on HuffPo.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:24pm“Hacking” someones twitter account… not that hard. I mean jeeze their password was probably ObamaLover08 or it was a disgruntled employee. Of course now conservatives get the blame. At least it was funny.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:17pm.
Trying to CYA with that “We were Hacked”(wink,wink) story…….
Can Ya‘ll believe they won’t let me post over there anymore?…….Please e-mail them and demand Free Speach for SpankDaMonkey……….
Thank You…….
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:47pmYea, I got over 900 fans before they booted me, and my ISP has been cursed ever since because I can’t seem to keep a profile overnight anymore.
Report Post »Talking to progressives is an exercise in futility anyway, they have ears but can not listen.
AB5r
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:14pmHuffington Post are frauds, as a conservative who over the years has tried repeatedly to post on their site, they are afraid of opposing views, they block almost all posts with a conservative point even if there is no foul language or direct attacks on other commenters. Finally after you have wasted so much time trying to post but never seeing the comments actually on the site, you give up and quit trying – which is what they want. This incident is great. I would only hope they would all die in a horrible accident. They are vile creatures for the censorship they engage in on their site.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:05pmNano weather machines – chemtrails and smart dust! micro machines MEMS
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nllOShVgIAQ
carbonyes
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 8:10pmHey, HuffPo sucks, what can you say? Nice to see them phony people get harassed on a regular basis. Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch of people.
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:53pmROTFLMFAO!!! I wish I knew who the hacker was, so I could send him (or her) a “Thank You” card, and maybe a gift card redeemable at their favorite restaurant!
It’s about time that those leftist weenies got a dose of their own medicine!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:51pmSo THIS is what Ron Paul’s Newsletters look like on Twitter?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:26pm@Time
Report Post »No, I think it looks like you and your brother Barry’s origional Hawaian Birth Certificates, yea that’s it. Siamise twins joined at the twinkie, how cute.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:44pm“Billboard.com reports that supporters of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, hacked the Twitter accounts of No Doubt, Nicole Scherzinger and Rise Against Wednesday morning.
According to Billboard.com, a Ron Paul endorsement appeared on the Twitter accounts of No Doubt, Nicole Scherzinger and Rise Against at roughly the same time Wednesday morning. The owners of the Twitter handles removed the tweets shortly after they appeared.The offending tweets, which Billboard.com was able to obtain before they were removed, read: “Today We Officially Endorse Ron Paul 2012 Donate to him here_________________.”
Sorry for leaving off the link, but I sure don’t want to be accused of providing a link for a Ron Paul donation!
There are dozens more stories just like this BETTERDAYS. I don’t need to provide you a link however, just do your research.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:00pmShortly after Ms. Clarkson’s Paul endorsement, a number of news stories surfaced claiming that the endorsement had boosted sales of the American Idol winner’s new album. However, the stories turned out to be misguided. Heavy promotion of Ms. Clarkson’s new album on iTunes was responsible for the singer’s soaring album sales.
Citing Nielsen SoundScan data and sources at RCA, the Hollywood Reporter writes that “little evidence exists to support the theory that Clarkson’s praise for Paul helped her sales.” In fact, the Hollywood Reporter argues that Ms. Clarkson’s album sales actually dropped compared to the previous week.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:39pmHmm…..a hypocritical, Soros supported, lying organization that exists to smear others, is getting a dose of their own medicine……the irony of it, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Let’s just hope this is just the beginning of what might turn out to be something very entertaining, with a tiny bit of justice thrown in, for good measure.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:52pmA SPOON FULL of SOROS helps the HuffyPOST go DOWN….Now sing along
Report Post »LMAO!!!!!!!!!
CatB
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:56pmCouldn’t have happened to a worse group of people … LOL !
OMG … Obama MUST Go 2012.
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:46pmSends a tingle up both my legs:D
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:32pmWould have been nice if they could find the WH emails telling Huffpo what they allowed and not allowed to write about.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:36pmThat would be interesting indeed.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:28pmBut they really do feel that way. It;s been hidden until now. I would bet they were not hacked.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:34pm@Bad
Report Post »Having posted there ( until I could stomach the company no longer ! ) I can totally agree with you. The liberal socialist progressive is a sick twisted beast that will rend it‘s own children to suit it’s selfish ends. They are as morally a bankrupt bunch as can be found anywhere on earth, even if it were Germany in 1939.
And I doubt they were hacked .
HippoNips
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:36pmHHAHAHa , Huff Pot deserves it They are a bunch of perverts
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:40pmHipponips…you are insulting Perverts…stop it!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:49pm@Hipponips
Report Post »Yea your giving perverts a really, really, really bad name, just drop one really and all is forgiven./lol.