A screen grab of the Burger King Twitter page after it was apparently hacked. Source: Supplied
IT APPEARS that Burger King's Twitter account has been hacked.
Starting just after 4am AEDT, the fast-food company's Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald's logo, and the account tweeted that it had been sold to rival McDonald's.
In the following hour, some posts from the account contained racial epithets, references to drug use and obscenities. The account has also tweeted: "if I catch you at a wendys, we're fightin!"
Videos and photos making fun of the fast food giant flooded the feed for the next hour.
“We caught one of our employees in the bathroom doing this….” one of the tweets said, with a photo of a man injecting a syringe into his arm.
McDonald's copped the brunt of the blame, with the company putting out a Tweet to assure customers they were not behind the hack.
Burger King Worldwide Inc. spokesman Bryson Thornton said the company reached out to Twitter administrators to suspend the account. The account has not posted since about 5.15am AEDT.
The Miami company plans to post a statement on Facebook later today to apologise, especially for the offensive posts. It hopes to have the account back up soon.
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