Disneyland Resort’s Facebook and Instagram accounts had been hacked earlier on Thursday with a collection of inappropriate posts that had 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 had 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 mum or dad firm Meta Platforms Inc didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. Recalling the incident in a blog post, The Disney Blog said that the Disneyland Instagram account was hacked at round 6 AM ET (3.30 PM IST) on Thursday by a hacker, who posted 4 photographs underneath the identify of “David DO.”

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

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

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

Meanwhile, China reportedly confronted the largest knowledge hack, the place a hacker claimed to have stolen private knowledge from a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of Chinese residents and is now promoting the data 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 reviews that they had filed.

AFP and cybersecurity specialists have verified a few of the citizen knowledge within the pattern as genuine, however the scope of all the database is tough to find out.