American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey’s official Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday afternoon (31 December), as reported by The Hollywood Reporter who were told by the company spokesperson.
The screenshots show a series of inappropriate tweets apparently sent out from Carey’s handle on New Year’s Eve. She enjoys a massive 21.4 million followers on the social media site.
Among the messages were references to rapper Eminem and a retweet of another account referencing the rapper’s daughter. “Eminem can still hold this p***y,” one tweet read. Other messages mentioned the Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that compromised the Twitter account of Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey in August last year. The group has also claimed responsibility for hacking other celebrity accounts, including that of actress Chloë Grace Moretz.
The last tweet appeared at 3:35 p.m. on Tuesday, showing a photo of a shirtless teenager with the caption reading, “xbox n****.”
The account was later recovered and all abusive tweets were removed from Carey’s account. Carey returned to Twitter and wrote a funny tweet on the incident, saying: “I take a freaking nap and this happens?”
A Twitter spokesperson said,”As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised account and are currently investigating the situation.”