Twitter accounts of well-known persons and other famous personalities getting hacked is not something new nowadays. It has been an imperative action to have two-factor authentication enabled to lock down our accounts. Recently, Square Enix Europe's Twitter account fell victim into a massive Twitter hack.
The account's bio was changed in #cyberwolfgang and began tweeting messages like "I AM THE GREATEST HACKER ALIVE.... SOMEONE HIRE ME LOL" as reported by Kotaku. These is just the first of the series of bizarre, mocking tweets poking fun at the company which surprised the account's more than 151k followers.
After the first tweet at 6:00AM ET, several tweets followed tagging other companies like Electronic Arts and Tech Crunch. They even made fun of FIFA saying "Fifa is such a shit game LOL RT". They even went on and announced that they are targeting the Twitter account of "Just Cause" which is also published by Square Enix in a tweet that says "and for our next trick..... @justcause tune in guys!"
The unnamed group of hackers successfully took control of the "Just Cause" account and went on a similar tweeting rampage. After a short while, the officials of the "Just Cause" account took control and immediately deleted the tweets of the hackers. On the other end, Square Enix Europe's account briefly regained control and deleted several unauthorized messages. However, the hackers pushed back the officials and took over again shortly.
After some time, the hackers remained unchallenged and their tweets remained published in the Square Enix Europe's account. However in an update posted by Polygon, Square Enix Europe seemed to have successfully regained full access of the account and deleted all the previous hacked tweets and tweeting an apology to its followers saying "Sorry about that folks, that shouldn't have happened. Thanks for your support and understanding over the past few hours!"
It is possible that the group of hackers is called Cyber Wolf Gang based on the hashtag that they used in their cyber-attacks imploring other users other users to retweet their recent messages. It appears that they are not just doing this for fun but also to gain popularity in the hacking community and the World Wide Web.
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