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Twitter has had more than its fair share of ups and downs over the past few years. It has had some bad press as well, and it certainly won’t gain good press when the most followed account on Twitter gets hacked. The account belongs to pop superstar Katy Perry who sits at the very top of Twitter’s user base with more than 89 million followers.

Naturally, when an account like Katy Perry’s gets hacked, it doesn’t take too long to notice that something is amiss. Whoever hacked her account was able to fire off some racist and vulgar tweets before Twitter took action by cleaning up the timeline and blocking the hackers from accessing the account.

It’s not exactly clear right now what happened here. Just that vulgar and racist tweets were sent out in quick succession. It was immediately clear that the account had been compromised since Katy Perry or the people who run their social media don’t send out such tweets.

Since this doesn’t appear to have happened due to a vulnerability in Twitter, it’s possible that the account could have been compromised through a directed attack. Two-factor authentication may not have been enabled prior to the hack. Twitter, or Katy Perry’s team for that matter, hasn’t confirmed how the hack came to be.

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