Calvin Harris and his girlfriend underwear model Aarika Wolf have reportedly called it quits after just seven months of dating. Rumours have it the couple split because of the DJ’s growing closeness with singer Taylor Swift. IN PHOTO: Singer Taylor Swift
Calvin Harris and his girlfriend underwear model Aarika Wolf have reportedly called it quits after just seven months of dating. Rumours have it the couple split because of the DJ’s growing closeness with singer Taylor Swift. IN PHOTO: Singer Taylor Swift performs during the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada September 19, 2014. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Lizard Squad, the hackers who claimed – but were denied – to be behind Facebook’s most recent outage, have hacked Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, and they had threatened to release her nude pics. Swift mocked the hackers in response.

On Tuesday, the Grammy winner’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were broken into, and the hackers posted some nasty messages and photos. The group, tweeting from Swift’s accounts, instructed her 50 million plus followers to follow two members of the Lizard Squad, @veriuser and @lizzard. The instructions appeared friendly at first, leading her followers to think it was still Swift tweeting.

A few minutes after her Twitter got hacked, her Instagram soon followed. Apparently, they have nude photos of the 25-year-old American songstress, and they would release it to people who would pay in Bitcoin. They also posted a rude photo of a man using a toilet. Fortunately, the offensive posts were deleted immediately, with Swift taking over her social media accounts once more.

“Well, now I’m awake,” Swift wrote on Instagram, adding that Twitter has locked her account until they can figure out how the breach happened. “Never a dull moment,” she joked.

Upon recovering her Twitter about an hour later, Swift even mocked the hackers and laughed at their claim that she has nude photos. “Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack…” she wrote, taunting the hackers with a play on her own song’s lines.

As for the nudes that the hackers were hacking online, the “Blank Space” singer even dared them to do it. “PS any hackers saying they have ‘nudes’? Psssh you’d love that wouldn’t you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING.”

Apart from the threat and the few distasteful posts, the hackers have also posted Swift’s DM, or direct messages, with other celebrities, including Nick Jonas. For those who have been hoping to see a nasty side of Swift in private messages, they would be disappointed to learn that Swift appears as nice and funny as she is in public.

“Yeah tomorrow night I’m done at 4pm, dinner/drinks/gambling? Are we bad kids now?” Swift joked to Jonas as they set up a meeting. It’s unclear whether the screenshots are authentic, though.

Lizard Squad

The hackers are said to be from the notorious black hat hacking group Lizard Squad, which most recently claimed to have hacked Facebook and Instagram. The group has taken responsibility for a number of cyber breaches in 2014, including the hacking of Destiny, PlayStation network and Xbox Live.

On Jan 26, 2015, it allegedly hacked the Web site of Malaysia Airlines, adding the headline “404 – Plane Not Found” on the page, referring to the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 in 2014. According to several reports, some versions of the Malaysia Airlines cyber-attack included the words “ISIS will prevail.” This had prompted concerns of the hackers’ association with the radical group.

On Tuesday when Facebook and Instagram went down for about an hour, Lizard Squad had claimed responsibility, boasting that they had hacked into the servers of the social media sites. Facebook has denied their claim, saying the outage “not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems,” a spokesperson told Wall Street Journal.