Taylor Swift denies 'nude pictures' claim in defiant response to Twitter hackers

Taylor Swift has responded to hackers apparently claiming to have nude pictures of the star with the defiant message: “Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING”.

The singer’s Twitter and Instagram accounts appeared to have been hacked overnight by users affiliated with the group Lizard Squad.

Messages were posted from both accounts and retweeted thousands of times before being removed.

Swift addressed the hack to her 51.4 million Twitter followers with the mocking tweet: “Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack.”

The 25-year-old also thanked her friend Hayley Williams, lead singer of the band Paramore, for being the first to warn that her accounts had been compromised.

Her third tweet suggested those responsible had threatened to release nude pictures of her – a claim Swift wasted no time in clearing up.

The hackers also allegedly posted a screenshot of Swift’s private messages, which only served to cement her squeaky-clean reputation.

Lizard Squad first came to attention in August when they hacked Playstation, causing a shutdown of the network and the emergency diversion of a commercial airliner carrying one of the company's executives.

One of the messages on Swift's Twitter account told users to follow the now-suspended @lizzard account. That user’s Twitter biography described them as a “leader of Lizard Squad”.

Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked, apparently by Lizard Squad

 

A user affiliated with Lizard Squad appeared to briefly gain control of the Taylor Swift account, which has 51.4 million followers, and also took over the singer's Instagram account

A hacker affiliated with Lizard Squad appeared to have hacked Taylor Swift’s Twitter account this evening, posting messages that received thousands of retweets before they were removed.

One of the messages told users to follow a user with the handle @Lizzard.
That user’s Twitter biography claims to be a “leader of Lizard Squad”, as well as a number of other famous hacking groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous. The account posted a number of tweets apparently revelling in the hack this evening.

Yes, I'm currently dating @taylorswift13 
— トカゲ (@Lizzard) January 27, 2015

The posts stayed up for a matter of minutes before they were apparently removed, but not before they had received thousands of retweets and favourites.

Swift's Instagram account was also hit by the hack, sending out similar messages before they were also taken down.

While some of Swift's fans (known as Swifties) rushed to defend the singer, others asked hackers to follow them from the official account while it was compromised.

All tweets since January 25 were deleted, including all of those apparently posted by hackers.
On Swift's official Tumblr she wrote: "My Twitter got hacked but don’t worry, Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords.
"Never a dull moment.

 

Piratean las cuentas de Taylor Swift en Instagram y Twitter

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Los Ángeles (EEUU) - Las cuentas de la cantante Taylor Swift en Instagram y Twitter fueron hoy pirateadas y usadas con la intención de vender una supuestas fotografías en las que aparecería la artista desnuda.

Los mensajes publicados en Twitter en nombre de Swift hacían referencia a @lizzard y @veriuser, dos perfiles que se asocian con un grupo de piratas informáticos conocidos como Lizard Squad, según publicó la web de información dedicada a los famosos TMZ.

Ambas cuentas fueron bloqueadas por Twitter pocos minutos después del incidente y los mensajes eliminados.

El perfil de Swift en Instagram sufrió un ataque poco después y los responsables de ese acto dijeron tener en su poder imágenes de Swift desnuda que estarían dispuestos a vender a cambio de un pago en moneda virtual Bitcoin, explicó el portal The Verge.

Al igual que en el caso de Twitter, la cuenta de la cantante en Instagram regresó a la normalidad pocos minutos después.

"Mi cuenta de Twitter fue pirateada, pero no se preocupen. Twitter está borrando los mensajes de los "hackers" y ha congelado mi cuenta hasta que descubran cómo ocurrió esto y me den nuevas contraseñas", escribió Swift en su blog en la red Tumblr.

La cantante, tras recuperar el control de sus redes sociales, envió un mensaje a los autores del pirateo.

"¿Piratas informáticos que dicen que tienen (mis) desnudos? ¡Ya os gustaría, verdad! Pasadlo bien editando mis fotos porque no tenéis nada", comentó la artista en Twitter.

Taylor Swift tiene más de 51 millones de seguidores en Twitter, una cifra que solo superan los cantantes Katy Perry (64 millones) y Justin Bieber (59 millones), así como el presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama (53 millones), y más de 20 millones en Instagram.