Hacked Premium Times Twitter account recovered

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On Friday evening, the online news platform Premium Times‘ official Twitter handle, @PremiumTimesng, was hacked by suspected fraudsters. However, positive news from the platform on Saturday morning has it that the news platform has regained control of its account.

The news has, however, been confirmed by the news platform, saying that that now had complete control of the account.

Following the hack by the unknown individuals, the account was seen sharing crypto-related content on Friday.

However, the management of Premium Times had noted that the hackers changed the login details of the account in a statement.

The statement said, “At about 4:52 p.m. Nigerian time on Friday, Premium Times Twitter account (@PremiumTimesng) was hacked. The hackers have since posted unsavoury tweets on the account and have changed the login details, even with 2FA enabled.”

“We urge our readers and the public to discountenance any tweet from the account for now and apologise for any inconveniences caused,” it added, saying it had formally contacted Twitter to recover the account.

Announcing that it regained the account on Saturday, Premium Times tweeted, “This is to inform our esteemed readers that we have regained control of our Twitter account, which was hacked a few hours ago. We are now in full control of our @premiumtimesng. We thank you all for your support and patronage.”

Special Announcement

This is to inform our esteemed readers that we have regained control of our twitter account which was hacked a few hours ago. We are now in full control of our @premiumtimesng.

We thank you all for your support and patronage.

— Premium Times (@PremiumTimesng) September 10, 2022

Source: punchng.com

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