Taylor Swift's social media accounts hacked

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
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Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked briefly on Tuesday, TIME reports.

The hacker tweeted from Swift's account, encouraging her 51 million followers to follow the leader of the hacking group known as the "Lizard Squad."

After Swift's accounts were returned to normal, the singer tweeted the following.


Swift also called out hackers who claimed to have nude images of the singer in a tweet.

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