The Tesla Motors website and Twitter account were both briefly hacked today by unknown attackers. The hacks appear to have taken place at around 1:52 p.m. Pacific Time.
Several tweets appeared from the Tesla Twitter account using some, well, colorful language. The name of the account was changed to “#RIPPRGANG.”
One tweet offered a phone number to call to get a “free Tesla” (please don’t call it). The number belongs to a computer repair shop in Illinois, reports the industrious TechCrunch.
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Another tweet says “the dragon strikes again,” but it’s unclear who or what “the dragon” refers to.
At any rate the Tesla IT people must have scrambled, because the website and the Twitter account were back to normal in about 30 minutes, as far as we can tell.
A bit later in the afternoon it was revealed that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter account had also been compromised. Some of the same verbiage seen on the hacked Tesla account also showed up on Musk’s page, including the #RIPPRGANG handle and the Illinois phone number.
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