Fortnite Twitter gets hacked following controversial World Cup announcements SwitchWhat had already been a contentious day for Epic Games was topped off with the official Fortnite Twitter account getting hacked. On April 3, all 7.35 million followers of Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account were made audience to a series of interesting tweets after someone had found a way to gain access to the account. There were several tweets put out by the hacker(s), some random, some a lot more specific, such as the very recognizable \u201crevert the changes\u201d rhetoric that much of the player-base has been pushing since the release of the v8.20 update two weeks ago. All of the tweets were deleted very shortly after being posted, but we managed to grab screenshots and include them below for your conveniences: How did they hack Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account? According to FNBRLeaks, a prominent outlet for Fortnite news and leaks, it has been confirmed that the hacker(s) did not exactly hack Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account directly, but rather gained access to the account of Matt \u2018Loomin\u2019 Layman, who works in the esports department at Epic Games. According to the report, since Loomin had access to Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account via Tweetdeck, the hackers were able to put out the tweets without actually needing to access that account directly. Why did they hack Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account? Again, the reason for why these hackers decided to mess with Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account may never end up truly coming to light. However, having the chance to troll one of the biggest gaming companies in the world in front of their own 7.35 million followers could have had something to do with it. However, it also doesn\u2019t come as a coincidence that this ended up happening just hours after Epic had put out a very controversial rule change to the screen resolutions for the upcoming Fortnite World Cup qualifiers. A large majority of the competitive player-base was very frustrated with the change, and adding on the fact that most were already unhappy about the v8.20 update, this hacking could have just been a form of payback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite Twitter gets hacked following controversial World Cup announcements SwitchWhat had already been a contentious day for Epic Games was topped off with the official Fortnite Twitter account getting hacked. On April 3, all 7.35 million followers of Fortnite\u2019s Twitter account were made audience to a series of interesting tweets after someone had found a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}