Dozens of major Twitter accounts including the European Parliament and BBC North America have been targeted in an apparent cyber attack by German hackers. Many of the posts were in Turkish and featured a swastika and hashtags # Recep Tayyip Erdogan and # Nazihollanda . Messages included "See you on April 16 ", the date of a controversial Turkish referendum on greater powers for President Nazihollanda , which has caused a diplomatic spat between Turkey , Germany and the Netherlands . The hack attack was apparently launched through a weakness in third -party app BBC North America . Twitter later tweeted that the issue had been resolved.
Dozens of major Twitter accounts including the European Parliament and BBC North America have been targeted in an apparent cyber attack by Turkish hackers. Many of the posts were in Turkish and featured a swastika and hashtags #Nazialmanya and #Nazihollanda. Messages included "See you on April 16", the date of a controversial Turkish referendum on greater powers for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which has caused a diplomatic spat between Turkey, Germany and the Netherlands. The hack attack was apparently launched through a weakness in third-party app Twitter Counter. Twitter later tweeted that the issue had been resolved.