Fire Department's Twitter Account Hacked
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Springs Fire Department's Twitter account was apparently one of hundreds hijacked amid a diplomatic feud between Turkey and Germany and the Netherlands.
Last night our Twitter account was hacked | our account has been restored & secured | ignore any early morning posts between 12-6 am pic.twitter.com/JQU01AwEsJ
— CSFD PIO (@CSFDPIO) March 15, 2017
The department said Wednesday that its account had been hacked and asked people to ignore tweets posted between midnight and 6 a.m.
KRDO-TV captured an image of the department's account which shows the cover photo changed to the Turkish flag and an avatar that appears to be a pin from the Ottoman Empire.
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