Dozens of major Twitter accounts including the European Parliament and BBC North America have been targeted in an apparent cyber attack by Turkish hackers . We've already taken measures to contain such abuse." Many of the posts were in Turkish and featured a swastika and hashtags # Nazialmanya and # Nazihollanda . These 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 problem 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 . These 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 problem had been resolved .