Clay County sheriff Facebook page hacked. Photo posted with caption, ‘DESTROY AMERICA’
A sheriff’s office in the Kansas City metro said they were hacked Monday morning.
At about 3:30 a.m. Monday, the profile picture for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page was changed to an image of Mao Zedong, a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China, who died in 1976.
The caption read, in all capital letters, “DESTROY AMERICA.”
About 45 minutes later a photo of a weapon was also posted and the office’s location was changed to “China.”
“Our Facebook page has been hacked,” the department posted on Twitter Monday morning. “We’re working to stop it and figure out what happened.”
The office wrote on Twitter at about 7:35 a.m. Monday that the page had been restored. The images posted by the hacker were deleted.
“We’ll be working with Facebook to determine what happened,” the office wrote on Twitter.
No other information was immediately available.
This story was originally published November 8, 2021 at 7:46 AM.
