The IT Nerd

It appears that electric carmaker Tesla has had its Twitter account hacked. Here’s the proof:

https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/592068680877547520

https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/592068749215211520

https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/592070258929709056

This started happening about 25 minutes ago. It’s surprising that a company run by Elon Musk would get pwned like this. So you can pretty much expect that whomever runs Tesla’s social media efforts is about to get fired.

UPDATE: The hack of the Tesla Twitter account follows the Tesla website being hacked as well. Right now it looks normal. But it may not stay that way.

UPDATE #2: It appears Tesla has control of their Twitter account as the Tweets that tipped the world off to the hack have been deleted.

UPDATE 3: Here’s a look of the Tesla Twitter account when it was hacked:

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