Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorseys Account Hacked

(NBC News) Janelle Griffith and Ben Collins Aug. 30 2019 4:13 PM The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey the co-founder of the social media platform was hacked on Friday. One of the first tweets sent from his compromised account was the N-word. Another sent minutes later praised Hitler. More than a dozen racist or otherwise offensive original tweets were sent within 20 minutes from the account. Among the tweets was a link to a message board on the chat service Discord. The users in the chat had spelled out DONALD TRUMP in emojis on one of the boards. Some of the users in the chat claimed they were attempting to rifle through Dorseys private direct messages while they still had access to the account but found the task too hard to manage. Dorseys messaging inbox is set to open which allows any user on Twitter to message him. On the announcements page where only moderators of the Discord can post the last message asked users who they should hack next. The server was taken down from Discord about 15 minutes after the first post before Twitter was able to take back control of Jacks account. Dorsey has more than 4.2 million followers.