MCMC suspends official Twitter account after it’s hacked (updated)


The official MCMC Twitter account had over 70,000 followers. — Screengrab from Twitter

UPDATE: MCMC just released a statement informing that it has temporarily suspended its official account because it was hacked.

It also said the public should not be influenced by the “suspicious, ugly and defamatory messages that have been uploaded through the account, which are not from MCMC.”


PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission locked and then deactivated its official Twitter account today (Jan 12).

Before it was deactivated, MCMC's account had over 70,000 followers.

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