{"id":28895,"date":"2013-02-18T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/burger-king-twitter-feed-closed-over-hacking-200807685--finance.html"},"modified":"2013-02-18T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:04:00","slug":"burger-king-twitter-feed-closed-over-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/burger-king-twitter-feed-closed-over-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Twitter Feed Closed Over Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">The official Twitter account of the global fast food chain Burger King has been suspended after it was attacked by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald&#8217;s logo just after 5pm UK time.<\/p>\n<p>A message was then posted on the Twitter feed, which read: &#8220;Just got sold to McDonalds because the whopper flopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The background image on the account was also changed to show McDonald&#8217;s new Fish McBites product.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent posts on the account contained racial slurs, references to drug use and obscenities.<\/p>\n<p>The account has since been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Burger King said: &#8220;It has come to our attention that the Twitter account of BURGER KING(R) brand has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have worked directly with administrators to suspend the account until we are able to re-establish our legitimate site and authentic postings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologise to our followers who have been receiving erroneous tweets about other members of our industry and additional inappropriate topics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the hacking, McDonalds posted a message on its own Twitter feed which read: &#8220;We empathise with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one has admitted to being behind the stunt, but hacking collective Anonymous has tweeted about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>One message posted by Anonymous read: &#8220;We&#8217;re guessing the @BurgerKing social media team is having a bad day&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter account of the global fast food chain Burger King has been suspended after it was attacked by hackers.<br \/>\nThe company&#8217;s Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald&#8217;s logo just after 5pm UK time.<br \/>\nA message was then posted on the Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}