Poor Elmo. The adorable, perpetually 3-year-old Sesame Street character loves us, but someone clearly does not love the furry red guy back. Hackers took over his popular X (formerly Twitter) account on Sunday and posted some decidedly un-Elmo-like content. It's surprising for a character and platform that are focused on teaching us likely missed a basic rule of social media: always set up Two-Factor Authentication.
All the deeply offensive posts have since been removed from Elmo's account, which has over 684,000 followers, and while Sesame Street has publicly commented on the hack, Elmo's account has been silent for the last 48 hours.
