A child caused panic in the US nuclear administration: How… hacked twitter

The strange post “? l ;; gmlxzssaw, “seen by Internet users on Sunday (28/03) on the official US Strategic Command account responsible for military control of the entire nuclear arsenal of USA (Stratcom), caused confusion. Shortly after, the tweet was deleted, to be followed by a bigger mystery.

Codes nuclear weapons; Hacking the Pentagon? Conspiracy? The sibylline tweet, consisting of punctuation marks and an incomprehensible sequence of letters, was a field of research and a given question.

However, to the displeasure of crypto fans, the mysterious post was just a nonsense written by a kid who snatched the account. Twitter of the Army for a few minutes, Stratcom told a reporter for the American media Dot Daily Dot.

“The person in charge of the Strategic Management Twitter, during teleworking, left the account open and unattended for a few minutes. “His young child took advantage of the situation and started playing with the keyboard and, unfortunately, and without realizing it, he published the tweet”, said a Stratcom representative in a relevant announcement, as reported by APE-MPE.

“Absolutely nothing bad happened, which means there was no breach of our Twitter account,” he added.

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