Jeff Ooi denies claiming Twitter account was hacked

PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi has maintained that he had full control over his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

He denied ever claiming his Twitter account had been hacked and that he had no part in the controversial “adios” tweet over the death of PAS spiritual leader Datuk Dr Haron Din.

“I have full control of my info flow through my FB and Twitter, which can be checked online. Other sources are not from me,” he said in a statement he released on Saturday.

In the same statement, he said that he had wished Dr Haron farewell and had no intention of belittling Dr Haron or his family.

On Friday, Ooi had made the remarks “Adios Harun Din. Let there be peace” in a retweet of another Twitterer’s comments.

The retweet then drew the ire of netizens.

At the request of the twitterer, Ooi later removed the twitterer’s comments from his original posting and posted another tweet, saying among others, "Received a personal call a while ago. So... Farewell. Let there be peace."

On Saturday, an online portal reported that Ooi had claimed his Twitter account had been hacked and that the offending tweet was someone else’s doing.

He denied making the claim.

“I am from the IT industry. I know my Twitter account was never hacked. I have full control. Period,” he told The Star Online later that day.