(Mobile Phones News) Vodafone was forced to release a stream of apologies, replying to each user individually to say “we weren’t hacked. A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally. We’re very sorry”. By the evening the company had been forced to release that message to hundreds of individual followers.
“VodafoneUK is fed up of dealing with dirty homo’s (sic) and is going after beaver,” read a tweet posted from the VodafoneUK account yesterday, leading many of its 9,000 following to assume the page had fallen victim to hackers.
It read: “This afternoon an employee posted an obscene message from the official Vodafone UK Twitter profile.
“The employee has been suspended immediately and we have started an internal investigation. This was not a hack and we apologise for any offence the tweet may have caused.”