Real Madrid’s official Twitter account has been hacked,
after a post welcoming Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to the club appeared on their
feed.
Just days after Barcelona’s account was taken over by
hackers OurMine, which announced Paris Saint-Germain’s Angel Di Maria had
joined the club as a hoax, the group was at it again, this time on the
Champions League winners’ account.
At 5.30 a.m. BST, accompanied by a video of Messi scoring
for Barcelona against Real Madrid, a post on Real’s Twitter said: “Benvingut
Messi! B!Bienvenido Messi! Welcome Messi! Bienvenue Messi! £Messi.”
The group, which has hacked a series of high-profile
accounts over the past 12 months, then followed it up with a series of tweets
claiming responsibility for the hacking, saying: “Internet security is s— and
we proved that.”
The post went viral, with over 27,000 retweets in the first
45 minutes of it being up.
The tweets remained public for around 90 minutes before they
disappeared from Real’s Spanish and English language feeds.
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