Burger King's Twitter account was hacked Monday and hackers changed the Burger King's profile picture to one of McDonalds making it look like they had something to do with the hacking.
According to many reports online, Burger King experienced a "McHack" on their Twitter account when the hacker changed their profile picture to McDonald's picture and claimed Burger King had been sold to McDonalds because its "whopper flopped."
The account's biography read: "Just got sold to McDonalds because the whopper flopped =[ FREDOM IS FAILURE."
McDonalds, who is one of Burger King's chief competitors, empathized with the food chain and stated that they had nothing to do with the hacking.
"We empathize with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking." - @McDonalds
The account was live for an hour before Burger King noticed the hack and requested to freeze the account. They then released a statement saying:
"It has come to our attention that the Twitter account of the BURGER KING® brand has been hacked. We have worked directly with administrators to suspend the account until we are able to re-establish our legitimate site and authentic postings. We apologize to our fans and followers who have been receiving erroneous tweets about other members of our industry and additional inappropriate topics."
During the hour the Twitter account was active, the hackers posted ridiculous or obscene items along with vulgar tweets. Other Twitter users also seemed to be enjoying themselves and posted some hilarious comments.
"The fact that @BurgerKing got hacked and turned into a @McDonalds feed is pretty funny. Never know what is going to happen in social media" - @ryancworkman
"Somebody needs to tell Burger King that 'whopper123' isn't a secure password." - @flibblesan
