WWE And AEW Affected By Huge Twitter Hack

In case you weren’t aware, a number of major US companies and famous figures were targeted last night in a sophisticated Twitter hack, in which followers were asked to send money to an account, which would then be doubled and sent to Covid relief funds.

The tweets read: “Everyone is asking me to give back. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”

Twitter has since said that it was a co-ordinated attack targeting its employees, “with access to internal systems and tools”.

As a result of the hack, Twitter blocked all verified accounts from tweeting for several hours, which was rather problematic for both AEW and WWE.

Both promotions were unable to tweet for a large portion of both NXT and AEW: Dynamite, and were forced to either set up new accounts, or use already existing ones, as you can see below.

Welcome to N X LEE!#WWENXT @RealKeithLee pic.twitter.com/IHfGg8IfoM

— WWE NXT (@TempWWENXT) July 16, 2020

With the on going twitter issues, please follow @AEW for updates on tonight’s action!!#AEWDynamite #AEWonTNT pic.twitter.com/tYYEVUdTnU

— ALL ELITE WRESTLING (@AEW) July 15, 2020

All is now well in the world, as Twitter appears to have sorted the situation. Thankfully, I’m not famous enough to have had my account frozen.

 

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