Groupon Indonesia’s Twitter Just Got Hacked and Hijacked

Well this is awkward – Indonesia’s Groupon Twitter account just got hacked. Formerly at @disdus, the page has now been hijacked and had its name changed to @MusikLegal1 – stealing Groupon’s 19,000 followers in the country. It seems that the only quick solution for Groupon was to simply start an entirely new Twitter account, which is now @GrouponID. It’s not clear why they couldn’t reset the password and prevent the total hijacking.

The @MusikLegal1 tweets are now protected, so we can’t see its recent tweets unless we had followed @disdus before this incident. But a friend of mine took a snapshot of the newly hacked account:

Hi, @disdus has been hacked but we still could access it from other apps that we use before. So, Just follow our new account @grouponid 🙂

— Groupon Indonesia (@GrouponID) October 4, 2012

Groupon Indonesia has acknowledged the hack and is now asking everyone to unfollow the @MusikLegal1 account and to migrate to @GroupOnID. This is quite a big blow as Groupon Indonesia needs to reclaim its sizeable follower base – now it’s starting from zero and is currently at a mere 391 followers.

Hi, Bagi yang sudah follow akun ini, unfollow saja akun @musiklegal1. Thanks 😀

— Groupon Indonesia (@GrouponID) October 4, 2012