Saturday 26 August 2017

Hacked: Real Madrid Twitter account announces Lionel Messi signing


Real Madrid's official Twitter account has been hacked, after a post welcoming Barcelona's Lionel Messi to the club appeared on their feed.

Just days after Barcelona's account was taken over by hackers OurMine, which announced Paris Saint-Germain's Angel Di Maria had joined the club as a hoax, the group was at it again, this time on the Champions League winners' account.

At 5.30 a.m. BST, accompanied by a video of Messi scoring for Barcelona against Real Madrid, a post on Real's Twitter said: "Benvingut Messi! B!Bienvenido Messi! Welcome Messi! Bienvenue Messi! £Messi.''

The group, which has hacked a series of high-profile accounts over the past 12 months, then followed it up with a series of tweets claiming responsibility for the hacking, saying: "Internet security is s--- and we proved that.''

The post went viral, with over 27,000 retweets in the first 45 minutes of it being up.

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