Sunday 26 April 2015

Tesla Motors Website And Twitter Account Hacked


Attackers there last night managed to hack the Twitter account and website of Tesla Motors. The Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk had to believe it. On the hacked site the attackers left a message.Through the hacked Twitter account were the 564,000 followers are messages sent that they were given a free Tesla as they called a certain number or followed different accounts.

TechCrunch reports that it was a phone number of a computer store in Illinois. About an hour after the hack the Twitter account was restored to its original state and the tweets of the attackers removed. The website, after the hack was offline for some time, has also been restored. How the attackers access to both the Twitter account as the site managed to get is unknown. Tesla Motors has no comments yet.

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