In a surprising turn of events Twitter's own CEO, Jack Dorsey's account (@jack) was hacked and some highly abusive and racist tweets were shared and retweeted from his verified account.  We have seen few technical outages in past and Twitter was down recently for quite a few users globally. Social media company's communication team confirmed the hack and stated - "Yes Jack's account was compromised. We're working on it and investigating what happened." Currently there is only one pinned tweet visible on Jack's profile page.

Here is the official confirmation of the hack -

Other tweeter users were quick to take the screenshots of Jack Dorsey's hacked account where there were some extremely abusive and racist tweets can be found. Some of the tweets from hacked account says "Hitler is innocent" and "Nazi Germany did nothing wrong" among other offensive statements. Below are some examples.

This is a developing story and we will keep bringing the updates on the hacking incident and if there is any further statement from Twitter or Jack on the news.

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