Piers Morgan was the victim of a horrific cyber attack last night (Monday) in which the hacker posted a series of racist, lewd and unsavoury comments on various issues on the Twitter platform.
The broadcaster, 57, is an avid user of the social media platform, which was taken over by Tesla magnate Elon Musk earlier this year, and usually causes a stir with his forthright and sometimes controversial views. However, it was taken to a horrific levels as Morgan's account - which had 8.3 million followers - reeled off nearly 100 tweets during the 50-minute attack which started at 3.20 on Tuesday morning (December 27).
Links to music on Amazon, racist comments to celebrities, unsavoury messages about the late monarch and claims about Somalia were just a handful of subjects that the hackers tweeted about in a chaotic period. Although his Twitter handle remained @piersmorgan throughout, the account's username was changed a number of times, including 'lol', 'Michael' and latterly an obscenity of 'Piers ****'.
The person behind the hacking started their tirade of sickening messages at 3.20am with a tweet which read: "BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Tate has been found shot dead in Dubai." That initial tweet regarding the controversial internet personality, who has previously appeared on Morgan's Talk TV programme - Uncensored with Piers Morgan, garnered more than 2,000 likes and 1,000 retweets.
Morgan's account then tweeted unsavoury messages which also involved derogatory and racist language about Queen Elizabeth II. Morgan is a staunch defender of the late monarch.
Tate was referenced in further posts and the hacker several times threatened to leak direct messages that Morgan had sent to celebrities, with a tweet saying: "1k RT's and I'll leak DMs with high profiled celebrities." The message gained more than double the target within 45 minutes.
Celebrities were also publicly messaged with pop superstar Ed Sheeran getting branded "ginger *****", American rapper 6ix9ine getting sent a rat emoji, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was told to "get a ******* haircut you ugly ***" and YouTube star Chunkz being sent an inappropriate emoji.
Claims about Somalia were also orchestrated by the hacker, with one post saying: "Please recognize the territorial integrity of Somalia. All this land belongs to the Somali people. #HandsOfSomalia #Somalia."
Tweets contradicting Morgan's thoughts on football were published, including calling World Cup winner Lionel Messi the "real GOAT", despite his close friendship and admiration for Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo. The hacker also claimed Arsenal are the "******** team going".
In the midst of the abhorrent tweets, the hacker did appear to leak a screenshot of messages between Morgan and two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray. Morgan's account appeared to have been shut down around 4.45am - 35 minutes after the final abhorrent message - as his profile picture of him and the Queen was taken down, with a lot of the offending tweets having also been deleted.
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