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Hack Brief: High-Profile Twitter Accounts Overrun With Swastikas

Published: March 20, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

Last night, a swath of Twitter accounts with large followings\u2014including Duke University, BBC North America, Forbes, and Amnesty International\u2014tweeted out the same message, in Turkish, that included a swastika and hashtags that translate to \u201cNazi Germany, Nazi Holland.\u201d The hacked accounts, which apparently stem from increasing vitriol between Turkey and Holland, appear to have all been restored.