LDS Church News Twitter account hacked by Anti-Mormons

As many who followed @LDSChurchNews on Twitter have come to find out over the past few days, Anti-Mormons hackers seized the Church News twitter account, which has now been suspended.

The initial problem the Deseret News faced was contacting Twitter’s administrators. Conde said once contact was made, Twitter agreed the hijacked account was an urgent matter.

The Church News Twitter site was suspended by about 10 a.m. Thursday.

“Twitter is anxious to get this resolved,” Conde said, indicating the focus now is trying to find out who the hackers were and deal with them.

There’s no indication yet when the feed will be up again, but Twitter administrators said they would be contacting the Deseret News later today about restoring the Church News account.

Like others, I got some anti-Mormon direct messages from the account on Sunday and similar tweets this week. It’s strange it took Twitter so long to suspend the account. I know others like myself, informed Church and Des News officials of the situation. Hopefully the account can be restored soon.

BTW, how can a Twitter account be hacked other than breaking into the administrator’s email account?

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