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Jeep Twitter account falls to hackers in latest whale of a fail

A day after hackers took over the Twitter feed of Burger King and switched it to a promotion of McDonalds, a similar effort successfully took control of Jeep's Twitter handle, swapping the user icon for the Cadillac logo and sending a barrage of expletive-filled tweets. Jeep's SUVs may be rugged, but its passwords apparently aren't.