Burger King Twitter Account Hacked, Replaced With McDonald's Logo Hacked ... the Burger King Twitter account before it was suspended. Hackers have taken over Burger King's Twitter account, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo. The tweets stopped after about an hour, and the account is currently suspended. The number of followers jumped 30 per cent from 83,000 to 110,000 within that time, reports Slashgear. Burger King, which usually tweets several times a week, said it was working to get the account back up. Typical tweets promoted sales on burgers, or asked how many bites it takes to eat a chicken nugget. But on Monday (US time) someone tweeted via Burger King's account, "We just got sold to McDonalds!" They also changed the icon to rival McDonald's golden arches and the account's background picture to McDonald's new Fish McBites. About 55 tweets and retweets followed over the next hour and a quarter, including some that contained racial epithets, references to drug use and obscenities. The account tweeted: "if I catch you at a wendys, we're fightin!" A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The appropriation of Burger King's Twitter account was a relatively mild example of cyber security problems, which are causing increasing concern in Washington, D.C. and for industry. Media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and The Washington Post have all said this year that their computer systems were breached, while several NBC websites were briefly hacked in November. White House officials and some lawmakers are pursuing legislation that would make it easier for the government and industry to share information on how to defend against hacking. Burger King didn't know who hacked the account, and no other social media accounts were affected, said Bryson Thornton, a spokesman for Miami-based Burger King. Its social media team and an outside agency manage the Twitter account, but Thornton declined to say how many people knew the account's password. He said they hope to have it working again soon, and will post a statement on Facebook apologising for the tweets. Twitter acknowledged on February 1 that cyber attackers may have stolen user names and passwords of 250,000 users. It said at the time that it notified users of the breach. Competitors were sympathetic. McDonald's responded on Twitter that it empathised with its Burger King counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking. "My real life nightmare is playing out" on Burger King's twitter feed, wrote Wendy's social media worker Amy Rose Brown.