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- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account (@Jack) was hacked on Friday afternoon.
- The compromised account identified the source of the hack as a group known as the Chuckling Squad, and posted multiple offensive messages starting at 3:44 p.m ET, including racial slurs directed at African Americans.
- It took Twitter about 15 minutes to respond to the hack, during which more than a dozen tweets and re-tweets were sent.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was apparently hacked by a group called the Chuckling Squad on Friday afternoon.
The hacker posted a series of offensive messages from Dorsey's including racial slurs and re-tweeted a message supporting Nazi Germany.
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It took Twitter approximately 15 minutes to delete the inappropriate tweets from Dorsey's account, and it's still not clear how the hackers gained access. The group shared also a link to a Discord messaging server, but Discord deleted the server within minutes.
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