{"id":9974,"date":"2017-04-16T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:08:43","slug":"someone-hacked-john-legends-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/someone-hacked-john-legends-twitter-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Hacked John Legend’s Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Legend is certainly one of many celebrities on Twitter whose accounts you want to follow. But his celebrity also means that he is of more interest to hackers. And that\u2019s just what happened to the Grammy winner \u2014 his Twitter was hacked recently. While Legend and and wife Chrissy Teigen found this Twitter hack amusing, hacks aren\u2019t often any fun. If you\u2019re worried about your account being hacked or your personal information being stolen, use the Anti-Hacking tool to be safer while browsing the web:<\/span><\/p>\n

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John Legend\u2019s Hacked Account<\/b><\/p>\n

Once the hacker gained control of Legend\u2019s account, he posted some amusing and disturbing messages. The poster focused on political subjects, posting tweets about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. For example, the hacker called President Trump \u201ca Cheeto.\u201d Some of these political posts were violent or sexual in nature, and when he regained control of his account, Legend was quick to distance himself from them.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Legend\u2019s Response <\/b><\/p>\n

John Legend, like his music, was calm about the hacking. In fact, he laughed at the absurdity of the hacker\u2019s messages. In fact, Legend himself started posting on Twitter, letting his fans know that he had been hacked. For example, he posted the Tweet: \u201cSomeone just hacked my account\u201d to let his followers know he hadn\u2019t been posting the bizarre messages. He then posted: \u201cI\u2019m back. My hacker was vulgar and kinda hilarious. I\u2019ll try to be funnier from now on so he won\u2019t feel the need to ghost write for me.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chrissy Teigen\u2019s Response <\/b><\/p>\n

Chrissy Teigen is one of the most popular celebrities on Twitter with her funny and true-to-life tweets. Like her husband, Teigen found the tweets funny. Teigen was clued into the attack on her husband\u2019s social media after one of her followers private messaged her about her husband\u2019s new Twitter bio, which described the singer\u2019s private parts in a less-than-flattering way. It\u2019s not surprising that this happened, though. In fact, Teigen made fun of her husband the same week his account was hacked, comparing him to the animated aardvark, Arthur,<\/span> on her own Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If someone as famous as John Legend is prone to online scams and hacking, what are you doing to protect yourself from malicious attacks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3228,4400,249,3319,600],"class_list":["post-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-hacking","tag-scams","tag-security","tag-social-network","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}