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Disneyland’s social media hacked with racist, insensitive posts
A string of racist, homophobic and insensitive posts have been revealed to the official Instagram account for Disneyland Resort early Thursday by what seemed to be a hacker.
The posts went stay earlier than 5 a.m. and have been quickly taken down, however not earlier than many individuals noticed or took screenshots of the posts.
“Disneyland Resort’s Fb and Instagram accounts have been compromised early this morning,” the corporate mentioned in a press release. “We labored shortly to take away the reprehensible content material, safe our accounts, and our safety groups are conducting an investigation.”
About 4:30 a.m. Thursday, 4 new posts appeared on Disneyland’s Instagram account, with a caption saying the “tremendous hacker” was taking revenge on the resort, in line with screenshots shared on social media. The posts used racist and homophobic slurs, and referenced the discharge of one other lethal pressure of COVID.
The hacker additionally appeared to put up tales on the Instagram account, which have been additionally quickly deleted.