The Facebook page of the destroyer ship USS Kidd belonging to the United States navy was hacked by a publisher. The publisher, who held the control of the page for two days, played Age of Empires in his live broadcasts on the page.
Speaking to Task and Purpose, the US navy news site, navy spokesperson Nicole Schwegman said, “USS Kidd’s (DDG 100) Facebook official page has been hacked. We are currently working with the Facebook technical support team to resolve this issue.”
Hacker used sarcastic expressions in the names of the broadcasts in which he played Age of Empires
The first broadcast by the publisher, called “Hahahahaha”, started on the evening of October 3rd. The second broadcast started on October 4 under the name “play game”. In other publications, sarcastic expressions such as “hi everyone”, “hi guys”, “ffffffff” were used.
The Navy eventually regained control of the account and deleted all videos, filling Kidd’s Facebook page with a collection of ship and crew photos, videos, and distribution updates. Fortunately, the images of this scandal experienced by the navy were captured for future generations.
The incident was interesting and funny, but it also raised legitimate concerns about the broader implications of the security breach, after Twitch also suffered a massive hack earlier this week. How was the publisher able to take over the official Facebook page of the navy? Was naval security potentially threatened?
It didn’t take long for the truth to emerge:
The US Navy released an update yesterday, explaining the behind the scenes of the event. In the statement, it was stated that the reason for the situation was that the social media account manager of the USS Kidd ship forgot to switch to his own account by logging out of the navy account before entering the Age of Empires game.
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