UK commentator's Twitter blanked after mystery hack

Profanities aimed at the British royal family were posted on Piers Morgan’s account under someone else’s control

British media personality Piers Morgan’s official Twitter account has been blanked after hackers, calling themselves the “chuckling squad,” spent over an hour posting obscenities from the handle on Tuesday.

Posting under Morgan’s account – which was renamed several times, to “lol” and “PIERS C**T” among other aliases – the hackers lobbed profanities at the British royal family (“f**k the queen”), former PM Boris Johnson (“get a f**king haircut you ugly bum”) and pop star Ed Sheeran (“you ginger f**ker”).

Some messages appeared to suggest the hackers hailed from Somalia, while in others they teased followers with the possibility of revealing Morgan’s private DMs with celebrities. One post erroneously claimed social media influencer Andrew Tate had been “found shot dead in Dubai.”

Screen recording I did of all the tweets from Piers Morgan hacked account to his 8.3million followers at 4am this Morning, went on for a good hour!