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The 25-year-old "Shake It Off" singer, whose album "1989" has
been atop the charts for the past three months, has built a
following of young fans through social media and has the
fourth-most popular Twitter account with 51.4 million followers.
"My Twitter got hacked but don't worry, Twitter is deleting the
hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out
how this happened and get me new passwords," said a statement
posted on Swift's personal Tumblr page.
"Never a dull moment," the statement added before another
posting said that Swift's Instagram account had been hacked as
well.
Celebrities are frequent targets of hackers who have posted
personal and embarrassing information online in previous
high-profile hacks.
Swift's publicist did not immediately respond to a request for
comment. Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc-owned Instagram did not
immediately respond to requests for comment on whether Swift's
accounts had been hacked.
The Grammy winner was back to tweeting two hours after the
hacking, in which users were asked to follow two accounts that
Twitter now lists as suspended.
"Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack ...,"
Swift tweeted, mimicking the lyrics to her hit "Shake It Off."
The apparent hacking of Swift's accounts came as Facebook, the
world's largest social network, experienced a wide outage on
Tuesday. A hacker group sought to claim responsibility, but the
company said the outage was its fault.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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