Disneyland’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked by a self-proclaimed “super hacker” who posted a series of racist and homophobic posts.
The threat actor operating under the name “David Do,” claimed that he was seeking revenge on Disneyland employees after some of them had allegedly insulted him.
The hacker also published posts claiming to have “invented” COVID-19 and suggested he was working on a new “COVID20” virus.
In total, the culprit made four posts on Disneyland’s Instagram account before 5 am PT.
Disneyland stated that the hacker also tagged several other Instagram accounts, but it is unknown if they are friends and will help lead police to the hacker. Also, he encouraged social media users to follow his private Instagram account @chi11estpanda.
The posts received thousands of comments of shock and outrage from Disney’s 8.4 million followers.
The Disneyland Facebook and Instagram accounts were temporarily taken down soon after the posts went live and came back online after the team removed the posts. The park’s other social media pages were left unaffected.
In the Disneyland blog post, it was stated that it is not known how this person managed to gain access to the Disneyland Instagram account. The company’s security teams are conducting an investigation regarding the incident.
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