Today many twitter accounts – some of them by political institutions and celebrities – have been sending out tweets with hashtags #nazialmanya and #nazihollanda. These accounts have been hacked. Among them are @Europarl_EN, @_Bercy_ und @welt. Because we are analyzing a lot of political relevant messages, we could find 19 accounts in our database that have to be compromised. All of them are political institutions, journalists, companies or data analysists. From 8:45 onwards we have been tracking the hashtags and till now we found 1370 tweets. Some are retweets, some seem to be sent from a botnet that is supporting the attack. So what happened? The company twitter counter (@thecounter) has probably been hacked. We suppose that all compromised accounts have used this service. So, not twitter has been hacked (probably). How did the hackers post on the twitter accounts? Twitter counter says they do not store twitter credentials. So, one possible solution would