Burger King Twitter Account Hacked to Look Like McDonald's
By: Joanna Stern
Updated: February 18, 2013
You could call it the Big Mac of Twitter hacks. Burger King's Twitter (@burgerking) account was hacked today. The account, which had more than 89,000 followers and was verified by Twitter, was made to look like McDonald's with a McDonald's logo.
The hacker posted tweets that Burger King had been sold to McDonald's and the account had been taken over by McDonald's employees. "We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you @DFNCTSC," the hacker tweeted at 12:01 p.m. ET. @DFNCTSC is likely an account set up by the hacker. Several of the posts used obscenities or racial epithets.
For over an hour minutes the feed was filled with photos and videos making fun of Burger King. "We caught one of our employees in the bathroom doing this...." one of the tweets said. Along with it was a photo of a man injecting a syringe into his arm.
ABC News has not heard back from Twitter or Burger King regarding the account. The account was finally suspended about an hour after the initial posts. McDonald's official Twitter account took the opportunity to make sure its followers knew it had nothing to do with the hack.
Earlier this month, Twitter reported 250,000 account passwords had been compromised by hackers.
The Burger King hack was the most prominent since last year when several Major League Baseball accounts were taken over by a hacker. The New York Yankees' Twitter account reported at the time that shortstop Derek Jeter would be undergoing a sex change.
