NASA’s Kepler mission twitter account hacked, tweets lewd image

The hacking hit the NASA Kepler mission’s home page too.

AB Wire

The official Twitter account for NASA’s planet-hunting space telescope mission Kepler was hacked on Wednesday. The profile picture was replaced with a young woman’s face, and the account’s username was also changed to “r4die2oz”.

Hackers also posted a lewd image with the accompanying caption “Ready for ya…”

The hacking hit the NASA Kepler mission’s home page too because the twitter handle is connected to the website and the pictures appeared there also.

A few Twitter users readily pitched in some sound advice to NASA, asking them to change their password frequently.

Launched in 2009, Kepler is a floating observatory typically tasked to locate earth like planets in the Milkyway which may support life. The spacecraft is monitoring only a section of galaxy.

It’s still unclear that how or why the account was hacked but NASA managed to restore the account soon.

Social Media Update:

Our account was temporarily compromised. We're back in business, ready to tell you about new planet discoveries.

— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) July 6, 2016