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Over the past couple of years we've seen a number of large corporations suffer security breaches at the hands of cyber criminals, but Sony, Nintendo, and Burger King aren't the only ones getting hacked. Celebrities' Twitter accounts are prime targets for those looking to have some fun on the Net. It's become so common that some public figures who've done impossibly stupid things online—like Anthony Weiner sending dong pics to girls—have tried blaming hackers.
The results of a Twitter break-in are usually uninspired: a flood of poorly contrived, forgettable messages. But sometimes they're awesome. So much so that you spread 'em around to your friends so they can read them before the celeb takes down their page. We've rounded up the 25 Funniest Celebrity Twitter Hacks that we have ever seen so you can look back and laugh again and, also, to give future hackers something to aspire to.
25. Britney Spears Worships The Devil
Date: 1/12/2011
Hack Highlight: "I hope the new world will arrive soon as possible!" -Britney
Poor Britney Spears has had her Twitter hacked twice. Once as part of a death hoax twitter hack campaign that affected plenty of celebrities, and a second time to spread rumors that the pop star worships Satan. The first one was corny, but the latter time was deceptively humorous with an edited profile pic, background, and sadist quips that seemed just as chipper and useless as her usual tweets.
24. Bristol Palin Goes In On Herself
Date: 1/11/2011
Hack Highlight: "$30,000 FOR A #BRISTOL #PALIN APPEARANCE??? YES APPEEARANCE – ARE YOU SERIOUS???"
After gaining access to the Twitter account of former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter, a hacker decided to spend the better part of a day cursing in all caps and making fun of the fact that he or she actually hacked Bristol Palin's Twitter account. Not too funny. However, combine that with the new Photoshopped icon of Sarah Palin with Joker face paint, and you had a winner.
23. Axl Rose Cancels European Tour
Date: 5/28/2010
Hack Highlight: "All upcoming Guns N' Roses dates are officially canceled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds."
Shortly after Guns N' Roses had their first tardy show in four years at the Rock'N'Rev, a prankster hacked Axl's account and told followers the band's European tour was canceled. UK promoters scrambled to inform ticket buyers otherwise; after having waited nearly a decade for the album Chinese Democracy, GNR fans wouldn't have taken the cancellation lightly.
22. Willow Smith Whips A Diss At Chris Brown
Date: 12/24/2009
Hack Highlight: "So Chris Brown is going to prison now breaking a window at ABC, but he didn't go for hurting Rihanna? #karma"
When C-Breezy infamously trashed a Good Morning America trailer, Willow Smith's Twitter account tweeted the above quote. The tweet doesn't seem unlikely, considering the progressive, opinionated rep of parents Will and Jada, but Roc Nation reps claimed the Twitter was hacked. Jay-Z probably figured the tweet "might offend [his] political connects," and swept it under the rug.
21. Hayley Williams Gets Exposed
Date: 5/28/2010
Hack Highlight: Photo
When a hacker gained access to the Hayley Williams' Twitter account, he/she got straight to business and posted a topless picture of the Paramore lead singer. Even though the photo quickly went viral after the tweet was deleted, Hayley kept it moving with a simple tweet acknowledging the hack. She was too busy getting ready for the racks-no pun intended-on the way from her appearance on B.o.B's single "Airplanes" that dropped the following month. Funny? Well, considering Ms. Williams was one of the few celebrities we never wished to see naked, yes, it is-in a cosmic sort of way.
20. Selena Gomez Turns On The Bieb
Date: 1/12/2011
Hack Highlight: "oh yeh JUSTIN BIEBER SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!"
After Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez made their relationship official, hordes of Bieber fans began attacking Beib's new boo with digital death threats. A short while after, a hacker that went by the name Pkinj0r-aka-Prokill decided to break into Selena's Facebook and Twitter accounts-under the guise of exposing security flaws-and began lashing back at all her haters. However, when dude released a YouTube video entitled "SELENA GOMEZ FACEBOOK GETS OWNED!," it was clear he was only doing it for attention.
19. Kian Egan Leaves Group
Date: 4/24/2011
Hack Highlight: "It took a very long time to come to this conclusion. I have had an amazing 12 years with the boys and wish them the best of luck in the future."
Teen girls panicked after seeing Irish pop star Kian Egan tweet that he was leaving his group Westlife. All was well once Kian used his wife's account to assure fans it wasn't true. The fan freak out was funnier than the tweets itself.
18. Paul Pierce Jumps The Broom
Date: 5/20/2010
Hack Highlight: "Anybody got a BROOM?"
In 2010, after beating Miami, then conquering the Cavaliers, the Boston Celtics went to battle against the defending Eastern Conference Champions, the Orlando Magic. Despite a close series, Paul Pierce felt the need to boast a bit too much after helping the Celts go up 2-0 in the series with an awesome 28-point game. If the Celtics actually swept the Magic that would be one thing, but they didn't. Retroactively funny, this was.
17. The Game Spits Real Fake Talk
Date: 6/3/2011
Hack Highlight: @jarule I saved yo punk ass from fifty butt fuckin u again'"
Tweets claiming his upcoming project, the Red Album was going to "go triple wood" was pretty believable considering the lukewarm reception the Cali rapper's singles have been getting. It's only when The Game started claiming to have saved rappers like Ja Rule from being attacked by other rappers, did we realize this was all a hoax.
16. Tiny Lashes Out At The Industry
Date: 3/21/2011
Hack Highlight: "@NICKIMINAJ my man rap better than you get a life BITCH!!!"
The night of March 21 saw Tiny take shots at Keyshia Cole, Rihanna, Chris Brown, and mostly hilariously, Nicki Minaj, during a tirade of tweets. Like the Nicki Minaj-aimed tweet, most of the messages were Tiny saying her man could rap better and makes better music. Things got slightly out of hand, however, when the hacker tweeted at Rihanna and Chris Brown, telling RiRi that she needs to get help before threatening to her murder both her and Breezy.
15. Diddy Tells Followers To Buy That, Buy That
Date: 12/6/2009
Hack Highlight: "Go cop your new phone from Verizon Wireless...in Tribeca"
Everyone knows Diddy loves to plug his various brands, but Ciroc Obama had to clear the air when a hacker urged followers to cop Verizon phones in Tribeca. Knowing Diddy's hustle, he might've still sent an invoice to Verizon for the extra press.
14. Charlie Adam Has a Thing for Cristiano Ronaldo
Date: 8/29/2012
Hack Highlight: "I am a pussy. Love you Cristano #ReyPadorowsky #Desmadrowsky2012"
Last year, a hacker decided to mess with some European football players by hacking their accounts and having them profess their love for Cristiano Ronaldo. The hacker left a calling card in the form of a the #ReyPadorowsky hashtag. In addition to Adam, the hacker also got Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero. - Damien Scott
13. Rick Sanchez Goes On A Bender
Date: 1/5/2009
Hack Highlight: "I am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today"
The hacker of former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez' Twitter account was likely a high school student who didn't have anything better to do. Still, with comments like calling Barack Obama a "cotton-picking president" and calling The Daily Show host Jon Stewart a "bigot" on national TV, along with pleading no contest to drunk driving in 2009, is admitting to drug use on Twitter that unlikely?
12. Lady Gaga Promises to Give Away iPads
Date: 12/21/2011
Hack Highlight: "Monsters, I'm giving away FREE iPad 2's to each one of you in the spirit of the holidays :)"
How much does Lady Gaga love her fans? A lot. She's the one that got every celebrity creating nicknames for their fans. That said, we're positive she doesn't love them nearly enough to purchase each of her 34 million twitter followers a brand new iPad. We can only imagine the excitement, and subsequent disappoint, this hack caused.- Damien Scott
11. Marc Jacobs Intern Snaps
Date: 3/23/2011
Hack Highlight: "Yea, walk in my MJ shoes! Don't judge me! I'm alone in this office having to try and entertain you all. This isn't easy. I have tried. Done!"
During a search for a new hire to handle the company's social media accounts, Twitter users were asked to send clever tweets to land interviews with Marc Jacobs CEO Robert Duffy. When the intern tasked with handling the Twitter account got fed up with Duffy's refusals of the users he was presented, he snapped. After calling Duffy a "tyrant," he announced the next day as his last, gave well wishes to other applicants, and admitted he "won't work in this town again!" We hope his coffee making, paper-pushing, and shoe-shining skills learned on the job came in handy.
10. Carmelo Anthony Puts Stacks On Kats Head
Date: 8/29/2010
Hack Highlight: "I got 5K for whoever see @ihatekatstacks and slap the shit out of her pigeon face ass. Real talk. U fucked with the right one now."
Groupie Kat Stacks was already disgusting Internet users everywhere with vlogs about alleged sexcapades with various celebs. But once she accused hoop star Carmelo Anthony of cheating on his wife, Melo offered a bounty for the first to test their pimp hand on Kat's face-and even added a yfrog pic of the cash. While his wife Lala cheered him on with her tweets, Melo later claimed it was a hack and said he was shooting a film in China. Right...
9. Ashton Kutcher Gets Hack'd
Date: 3/2/2011
Hack Highlight: "Ashton, you've been Punk'd. This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL?"
The hacker of Ashton Kucher's Twitter account had clear purpose: highlighting poor online security, with a couple of chuckle-worthy references to his TV/movie titles. After a quick two tweets, he let the account's 6.3 million followers go on their way. If only Ashton would've had the same tact with his film career.
8. Ray Allen Works On His Tweet-Point Game
Date: 12/24/2009
Hack Highlight: "I'm getting there. When u masturbate think about my tongue or your clit and switching back and forth from my dick to my tongue. "
The NBA's best three-point shooter took to twitter during the 2009 Holiday season to tell his fans that the random sexting tweet posted to his page was the result of a hack, and not him mistakenly posting a message that should have been a DM. Right. Was he telling the truth? Who knows? All that matters is that he stuck to the script. Anthony Weiner could learn a thing or two from Ray Ray.
7. Lil Wayne Unhinged
Date: 1/16/2011
Hack Highlight: "@SouljaBoy I sent a donations to your paypal, check it, I heard you got 13,000 sales lil homie, i feel bad for you! #DamnSoulja"
Aside from the above Soulja Boy diss, and telling Birdman that he was too old to be rapping, the hacker of Weezy's Twitter page resorted to corny gay jokes and accusations of Interscope paying for SouljaBoy's Twitter followers. Once an alternate Wayne twitter account was set up to inform users of the hack, everything was back to normal.
6. Ja Rule Reflects On His Career
Date: 12/14/2010
Hack Highlight: I changed my e-mail. I changed my password. Too bad I can't change my career status."
The day after Ja was slapped with a two-year prison sentence for illegal gun possession, a hacker kicked the Queens MC while he was down with dozens of slanderous tweets. Gay jokes about him and Murder Inc. head Irv Gotti were to be expected, but self-deprecating tweets about his flailing career and an apology for slapping 50 were surprisingly funny.
5. Khloe Kardashian Loves Lam Lam
Date: 4/1/2011
Hack Highlight: "Lam-Lam, I love you. You can shoot your balls in my basket anytime you want."
As an April Fool's joke, someone-allegedly a light-hearted Nicole Ritchie-found his or her way to Kim and Khloe's Twitter profiles to post comically lewd comments about their love lives. Not laugh-out-loud hilarious, but much better than the time Kim thought her profile was hacked when it really wasn't.
4. Wale Goes Off
Date: 1/27/2011
Hack Highlight: "@LADYGAGA WHY DONT U RETURN MY CALLS NO MORE BOO?"
Hackers hopped on previous beefs Wale had with Kid Cudi and G.O.O.D. Music, and even took jabs at RapRadar. They also turned their attention to Tyler, the Creator and Cudi's in-house producer D Dot. Wale shrugged off the hate and clarified potentially offended parties with corrective tweets and an interview with COMPLEX.
3. Gucci Mane Really Likes Justin Timberlake
Date: 2/10/2013
Hack Highlight: "Justin Timberlake is yummm. :)"
Hats off to whoever hacked Gucci Mane's account and, instead of tweeting hateful messages or trying to reignite one of Gucci's many beefs, opted for subtly. Imagining Gucci Mane calling Justin Timberlake "yummm" is about the funniest thing to happen to Gucci since he got that ice cone tatted on his face. - Damien Scott
2. Alicia Keys is Still #TeamiPhone
Date: 2/11/2013
Hack Highlight: "Started from the bottom now were [sic] here"
We're still not sure why BlackBerry named Alicia Keys creative director, nor are we sure what that job will entail. What we are sure about, however, is that if a phone company announces you as one of its new acquisitions right after it introduced a brand new phone, you should not get caught publicly using a competitor's phone a few days later. But that's exactly what happened as Ms. Keys was caught tweeting a Drake lyric from an iPhone. She claims her account was hacked, but unless the hacker was in OVO, we're not buying it. - Damien Scott
1. Donald Trump Gets Even Less Classy
Date: 2/21/2013
Hack Highlight: "These hoes think they classy, well that's the class I'm skippen [sic]"
Donald Trump is known, amongst other things, for spewing ridiculous things on whatever platform to which he's allowed access. Peep his Twitter page and you'll see tweets that will make you wonder how he the man hasn't been hit with a Liam Neeson-like chop to the neck. However, his page got even less classy when hackers took hold of it and posted a random quip, funny quip. Can we see Trump calling girls hoes? We sure can. But the bronzed hair-extension-rocking blowhard claimed he was hacked and deleted the tweet. - Damien Scott