Ask HN: How was the Burger King Twitter account hacked?

I often see in the news that X twitter account was hacked; how exactly does that happen?

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Maybe another account password was hacked and they used the same password for Twitter. Or their password was really bad, like "123456" or "password".

I happened to read that their password was "whopper123"