Hacked Twitter Accounts a New Headache for Schools – Digital Education – Education Week

The trouble for Foothill High started at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon earlier this month.

That’s when a stream of profane and offensive messages started appearing on the official Twitter account of the 2,600-student school near Las Vegas.

Among them: taunts about the school’s “weak weak security system,” a photo of a school administrator altered in a vulgar way, and anarchist images and messages.

It wasn’t the first time a public school district faced this new kind of emergency.

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