{"id":102497,"date":"2019-07-20T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/20\/scotland-yards-twitter-account-breached-in-series-of-bizarre-posts\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T00:08:14","slug":"scotland-yards-twitter-account-breached-in-series-of-bizarre-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=102497","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Yard&#039;s Twitter account breached in series of bizarre posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Unauthorised access\u2019 led to series of messages being posted and emailed to subscribers Scotland Yard\u2019s principal Twitter account, which is followed by more than 1.2 million people and is used to provide important alerts in times of crisis, tweeted a series of bizarre messages on Friday night after becoming \u201csubject to unauthorised access\u201d.Many of the dozen errant tweets, some of which referred to the British rapper Digga D, were also repeated in press releases emailed out to journalists from the force\u2019s official email address. Officers said they were \u201cassessing to establish what criminal offences have been committed\u201d over the security breach. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jul\/20\/scotland-yards-twitter-account-breached-in-series-of-bizarre-posts\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland Yard&#039;s Twitter account breached in series of bizarre posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Unauthorised access\u2019 led to series of messages being posted and emailed to subscribers Scotland Yard\u2019s principal Twitter account, which is followed by more than 1.2 million people and is used to provide important alerts in times of crisis, tweeted a series of bizarre messages on Friday night after becoming \u201csubject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}