Taylor Swift's social media accounts were taken over by hackers on Tuesday.
Tweets were sent instructing her 71 million plus followers to follow two users who claim to have ties to a group of hackers called the Lizard Squad.
The hackers threatened to post naked photos of the singer, who quickly denied that they were in possession of any.
'Any hackers saying they have 'nudes'? Psssh you'd love that wouldn't you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING,' Swift tweeted after regaining control of her account.
Swift, who has been holidaying in Hawaii, used her Tumblr page to alert fans to the hack, writing: 'Well, now I'm awake. My Twitter got hacked but don't worry, Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords.
She later wrote: 'Now instagram. This is going to be a long day.'
She concluded: '#THIS IS WHY I'M SCARED OF TECHNOLOGY #WHO'S PARANOID NOW??'
Twitter user '@veriuser' appeared to take credit
for the hack, sharing a screenshot showing that
he had access to Swift's account, with the caption: 'I f***ing love myself.'
And a user by the name of '@lizzard' claimed he would release nude photographs of the pop star once three bitcoins had been paid into a bitcoin account - the equivalent to around $800.
Both users - who are the same ones Swift's hackers told fans to follow while posing as the
singer - have now been suspended.
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