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LONDON Twitter says an elected Dutch official was among 36 account holders whose direct message inboxes were accessed in a recent high-profile hack. The hacker indeed also got full access to my DM's which of course is totally unacceptable in many ways," Wilders said. The hack appeared designed to lure their Twitter followers into sending money to an anonymous Bitcoin account. I deleted most of them but maybe some were left there for the hacker to see and copy. He added that he rarely wrote direct messages himself. Twitter also confirmed that another eight accounts had their user data archive, including direct messages, downloaded through the Your Twitter Data tool, but none of those accounts were verified.

Travis Barker is not here for any creepy DMs, especially when they involve one of his kids. The Blink-182 drummer spoke out on Thursday, after learning that Echosmith drummer Graham Sierota, 20, was sending direct messages to his 13-year-old daughter, Alabama Luella Barker, via Instagram. I would like to apologize again to Alabama, her dad Travis, and her family." Last October, Alabama exclusively debuted her second official single, "Heartbreaker," and its accompanying music video with ET. "I feel like by getting those Instagram followers, you have to work up to it; it took a long time."

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter had all experienced various issues. But a Facebook spokesperson said Wednesday evening that its problems were fixed. Facebook-owned Instagram said its issues were also fixed. Twitter, meanwhile, tweeted via its support account that it was "almost at 100% resolved. Issues on Facebook and Twitter were happening in pockets worldwide, according to Down Detector, which tracks issues and outages on a variety of sites.