Late on Friday night, some rather out-of-character tweets seemed to be coming out of New Scotland Yard.
The Twitter account of London’s Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) broadcast to its more than one million followers a series of bizarre and sometimes offensive messages:
What’s more, the tweets pointed to suspect content in the news release section of the official Met Police website:
And emails were sent to people who had signed-up for notifications about news releases:
All very juvenile stuff…
Thankfully, Met Police Superintendent Roy Smith took to Twitter to confirm that this wasn’t New Scotland Yard trying to be “down with the kids”, and the account was reasonably swiftly brought back under control.
We are aware that the @metpoliceuk has been subject to unauthorised access and our media team are working hard to delete the messages and ensure the security of the account. Please ignore any Tweets until we verify that it is back under official control. RT
— Supt Roy Smith (@roysmithpolice) July 19, 2019
My guess is that the nature of the links posted by whoever was behind the attack, and the content that some of them linked to (which appeared to doxx an individual) might well point the authorities in the direction of those who might be responsible.
Someone, however, hadn’t guessed the password to the Met Police’s Twitter account or hacked into its website.
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