"We worked quickly to remove the reprehensible content,
secure our accounts, and our security teams are conducting an
investigation," the entertainment giant said in a statement.
Screenshots of the Instagram posts, which were posted
online, contained profane and racist posts made by a person claiming to be a
"super hacker here to bring revenge upon Disney land."
Disneyland has about 8.4 million followers on Instagram.
Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta Platforms Inc
did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Recalling the
incident in a blog post, The Disney Blog stated that the Disneyland Instagram
account was hacked at around 6 AM ET (3.30 PM IST) on Thursday by a hacker, who
posted four photos under the name of “David DO.”
These posts threw racist/homophobic slurs and looked to be
challenging someone named “Jerome” and some of the “Disney employees.”
The hacker tagged several other accounts. It is yet to be
investigated if the accounts belonged to the friends of the hacker.
Disneyland has over 17.2 million followers on its Facebook
account, where the hacked posts seem to have been completely removed now.
Meanwhile, China reportedly faced the biggest data hack,
where a hacker claimed to have stolen personal data from hundreds of millions
of Chinese citizens and is now selling the information online.
A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker
showed citizens' names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses,
birthdays, and police reports they had filed.
AFP and cybersecurity experts have verified some of the
citizen data in the sample as authentic, but the scope of the entire database
is hard to determine.
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