Three of Ekot’s twitter accounts have now been deactivated. That after these accounts were hacked today, and several tweets in English with racist elements were sent out by an unauthorized sender.
Claes Bertilsson is press manager for Swedish Radio.
– What we do know is that an unauthorized person has accessed our accounts and sent out a number of messages that do not come from us. This content is not Swedish Radio content, he says.
It was at half past one on Saturday as tweets in English with racist elements were sent out by someone unauthorized from three of Ekot’s twitter accounts, Ekot nyheter, Swedish Radio Ekonomi and Swedish Radio Politics.
Now Swedish Radio’s staff is investigating whether there may be more accounts and they are analyzing what may have happened, according to Claes Bertilsson.
– Right now we solve the emergency situation and then we have to take the next step when it is handled. Exactly what has happened I can not say right now. But we will of course look at what has happened in retrospect.
How is it possible that this can happen on Swedish Radio? What about IT security?
– It is generally good, but here something has obviously happened. Exactly what I can not say yet, so it’s something we get to look at. And continue to work to ensure that it does not happen again, says Claes Bertilsson.