NASA’s Kepler Twitter hacked, hacker tweets raunchy images
Yesterday, NASA’s Kepler Twitter account began tweeting some really raunchy images. For a brief few minutes on Wednesday, Kepler followers could see NSFW images instead of the usual moon, stars and asteroid pics. This was because the account, @NASAKepler, got hacked, with the hacker posting a view of a woman’s butt.
PostGhost, a site that tracks deleted tweets for verified accounts stated that NASA was able to restore the account in 16 minutes.
Our account was temporarily compromised. We're back in business, ready to tell you about new planet discoveries.
— NASA Kepler and K2 (@NASAKepler) July 6, 2016
Within those 16 minutes, the hackers used the account to tweet really nasty pics which become a butt of joke on social media.
that definitely wasn't Uranus
— cosmiczorro (@cosmiczorro) July 6, 2016
was the last photo the newest planet discovered?
— jesse vega (@CosmicTropic) July 6, 2016
Too bad, I thought we found a new heavenly body.
— Chris P (@Luckeytiger14) July 6, 2016
I hope your password wasn't "54321blastoff"
— Indy (@indylead) July 6, 2016
Kepler Twitter account belongs to NASA and normally tweets about new planetary findings. Kepler had recently tweeted about the newly discovered 9 planets in a habitable zone of stars where conditions could be right for liquid water, and potentially life.
