Outlook Magazine on Sunday issued an apology after some of its users complained that their twitter accounts were compromised after they chose to vote for the magazine’s social media award poll through its app.
The Outlook Social Media Awards handle tweeted out an apology stating that it regrets the inconvenience caused to its users. It said the development was the result of a hacking attempt by ‘‘some hackers’’ trying to ‘hijack’ the server. The magazine however, said that the glitch was fixed and said that no data was leaked from its database. It added that the ‘’read and write’’ access of the app was removed.
We regret the inconvenience caused! pic.twitter.com/8ttREgR7Nq
— OSM Awards (@OsmAwards) September 11, 2016
Twitter users had earlier hit out at the media house after some users found unauthorised tweets being sent from their accounts without their permission.
#SocialFsckUp Screwup :: If you voted in the Outlook awards using OSM app, revoke access asap. pic.twitter.com/CZZVyoTUjd
— Arvind Gupta (@buzzindelhi) September 11, 2016
if u hav voted for Outlook OSM awards, go to twitter settings and immediately remove access to app named osm-awards by Outlook #SocialFsckup
— Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) September 11, 2016
Check tweets with #SocialFsckup
— Binary Baba™ v3.1 (@0__1) September 11, 2016
Outlook india's intern did mast use of access and tweeted all funny things
Strange that @Outlookindia is yet to issue an apology and a clarification! #SocialFsckup
— Shakthi (@v_shakthi) September 11, 2016
what about ur transparency? You are hacking people's @TwitterIndia accounts and posting fake tweets #SocialFsckUp https://t.co/yQy6cTHvyA
— Sumit Nagpal (@Sumit_Nagpal) September 11, 2016