Taylor Swift’s social media hacked and threaten nude leaks

“The haters gonna hack hack hack hack”

Taylor Swift’s social media hacked and threaten nude leaks

It's every celebrity's worst nightmare and this time they targeted Taylor Swift.

The 'Blank Space' singer - who is currently vacationing in Hawaii - had her Twitter and Instagram accounts taken over by a mystery user yesterday, with postings on her microblogging page asking fans to follow two users, @lizzard and @veriuser,both of whom claim to be linked to hacking group the Lizard Squad.

The two accounts were suspended and the tweets deleted, but one posted a link to a Bitcoin account alongside a message which read: "Will post taylor swift's nudes when this btc wallet hits 3btc."

However, the 25-year-old pop princess seemed nonplussed by the hack and later took to Twitter to say:

As well as the light-hearted Tweets, the singer also shared an explanation on her Tumblr account.

The hackers also posted what they claimed was private messages between Taylor and friends including Nick Jonas, singer/songwriter Garrett Borns, aka BØRNS - who she exchanged puns about whales with - and YouTube star Felix Kjellberg.

It hasn't been confirmed if the exchanges were real.

According to E! News, undesirable pictures such as a man on a toilet was posted on Taylor’s Instagram account.

“The haters gonna hack hack hack hack” has a good ring to it, don’t you think?

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