Disneyland’s Facebook, Instagram Account Hacked; Secured Hours Later

Disneyland Resort’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been hacked earlier on Thursday with a sequence of inappropriate posts that have been subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co stated.

“We worked quickly to remove the reprehensible content, secure our accounts, and our security teams are conducting an investigation,” the leisure large stated in a press release.

Screenshots of the Instagram posts, which have been posted on-line, contained profane and racist posts made by an individual claiming to be a “super hacker here to bring revenge upon Disney land.”

Disneyland has about 8.4 million followers on Instagram.

Facebook and Instagram’s mother or father firm Meta Platforms Inc didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. Recalling the incident in a blog post, The Disney Blog acknowledged that the Disneyland Instagram account was hacked at round 6 AM ET (3.30 PM IST) on Thursday by a hacker, who posted 4 pictures underneath the identify of “David DO.”

These posts threw racist/homophobic slurs and difficult somebody named “Jerome” and a number of the “Disney employees.”

The hacker tagged a number of different accounts. It is but to be investigated if the accounts belonged to the buddies of the hacker.

Disneyland has over 17.2 million followers on its Facebook account, the place the hacked posts appear to have been utterly eliminated now.

Meanwhile, China reportedly confronted the most important knowledge hack, the place a hacker claimed to have stolen private knowledge from a whole lot of thousands and thousands of Chinese residents and is now promoting the knowledge on-line.

A pattern of 750,000 entries posted on-line by the hacker confirmed residents’ names, cell phone numbers, nationwide ID numbers, addresses, birthdays, and police studies that they had filed.

AFP and cybersecurity consultants have verified a number of the citizen knowledge within the pattern as genuine, however the scope of your complete database is tough to find out.