{"id":642824,"date":"2013-02-18T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=130792"},"modified":"2013-02-18T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T18:16:18","slug":"burger-king-sold-to-mcdonalds-according-to-the-companys-hacked-twitter-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642824","title":{"rendered":"Burger King sold to McDonald\u2019s &#8212; according to the company\u2019s hacked Twitter feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-130793\" title=\"burger king\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/burger-king-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/>Burger King\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BurgerKing\" >Twitter account<\/a> was just hacked and has been turned into an amusing (and rather crude) advert for fast food rival McDonald\u2019s, complete with the Chicken McNuggets header and golden arches logo as the avatar.<\/p>\n<p>No one is entirely sure who is behind the action at the moment, although there\u2019s a shout out to DFNCTSC, the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, a loosely organized collective responsible for hacking Paris Hilton\u2019s mobile phone and posting her address book a while back.<\/p>\n<p>The first tweet from the feed\u2019s new masters states: &#8220;We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you @DFNCTSC&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are some amusing posts and retweets in the feed, including an observation from Simon Osborne that \u201cSomebody needs to tell Burgerking that &#8216;whopper123&#8217; isn&#8217;t a secure password\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some 82,000+ people were following the Burger King account prior to the hack, but that\u2019s since shot up by another 9,000 as people clamor to watch the fun. As OAFEnet observes, \u201cThey may be hacked, but when was the last time ANYBODY talked about @BurgerKing this much?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Anonymous has joined in, tweeting: &#8220;We&#8217;re guessing the @BurgerKing social media team is having a bad day&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> And that&#8217;s it folks. The account has just been suspended by Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=pfq4i9ukzTE:wRO0JAVoYEw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=pfq4i9ukzTE:wRO0JAVoYEw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/pfq4i9ukzTE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burger King\u2019s Twitter account was just hacked and has been turned into an amusing (and rather crude) advert for fast food rival McDonald\u2019s, complete with the Chicken McNuggets header and golden arches logo as the avatar. No one is entirely sure who is behind the action at the moment, although there\u2019s a shout out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}