On February 18, Burger King found out that its Twitter account was manipulated by hackers. Where its picture profile used to be appeared McDonalds instead and some insulting tweets on the wall.
Surprisingly, the outcome of this attack were advantageous for the restaurant chain and the number of followers increased from 83.000 to 113.000 who congratulated when the company it took back the control of the account.
Just one day after, Chrysler added itself to the list of companies that have been hacked on Twitter when strange tweets showed up in Jeep’s profile. The hackers –some activist allegedly related to Anonymous reclaimed the attack– changed the photo by the largest-sell car in United States in 2012, the Cadillac ATS, property of the enemy
of Jeep: General Motors.
The path of the previous attack was repeated: mocking and insulting messages were posted on the wall and overmore, the hackers pretended that the car maker had been buyed by Cadillac and that it would not manufacture cars anymore.
Few hours later the company took the normality back to the Jeep’s account, erasing the fake post.
.@jeep Glad everything is back to normal.
— BurgerKing (@BurgerKing) February 19, 2013
It is still unknown of whom is the responsability of the attacks and even if they are linked, but both of them get over easily from the joke
.