Hackers broke into Donald Trump’s upcoming social media site, creating fake accounts for Trump and Steve Bannon and posting a photo of a defecating pig – By Grace Dean (Business Insider) / Oct 22 2021
- Hackers from Anonymous told The NYT they had created fake accounts on Trump’s Truth Social site.
- On a fake Trump account, they posted a photo of a defecating pig, the publication reported.
- “We had a fun time trolling it to high heaven,” one of the hackers said.
Former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social-media site, Truth Social, was hacked just a few hours after the announcement of its launch.
Hackers claiming affiliation with the group Anonymous created fake accounts for Trump and his former aide Steve Bannon on Truth Social, the network that Trump announced Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Fake accounts were also set up in the names of conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
The hackers posted a picture of a defecating pig on an account with the handle @donaldjtrump, the publication reported, with screenshots shared on Twitter.
The hackers told The Times the hack was part of their “online war against hate.”
Trump said on Wednesday that he was creating Truth Social through his new company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), “to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.”
