They hacked the Twitter of the US Embassy: "Cristina lost"

A strange message on the social network Twitter of the United States Embbady in Buenos Aires has generated the surprise and reaction of thousands of users.

At 11:16, the official user of the diplomatic headquarters – @ EmbajadaEEUUarg – published: "Cristina lost"Twenty-four minutes later, the tweet was erased and the explanation came:"We do not know yet how that happened, but we are investigating"

During the period when the 17-character commando message was available on the Web, hundreds of readings were woven, most of them related to an alleged reading of the embbady on the result of the ballot. Neuquén, where the candidate of the citizens unit has ended second, very far from Omar Gutiérrez, the re-elected governor.

For now, the phrase "Lost Cristina" has grown in record time to become a hot topic, one of the topics that has generated more conversations this morning on Twitter.

Diplomatic sources consulted by Infobae They were referred to the official explanation published on the same channel: "We do not post the message and we badyze what happened"

Computer security experts believe that the user has been hacked, which explains the delay in clearing the message and giving a formal explanation about the incident.

The Embbady has issued an official statement on its website

On March 11, 2019, a brief and vague message was tweeted on the Twitter account of the American Embbady in Argentina. The message seemed to refer to a personality and domestic political problems in Argentina.

Anyone who follows the embbady on social networks, used exclusively to celebrate the long and strong friendship between the United States and Argentina, would have immediately recognized the falsity of the message.

We immediately deleted the tweet and categorically reject its content. We will study this incident in depth and strengthen our security measures on our social media accounts.

Hacking or human error, the clarification generated a hilarious thread of memes: