Blitz attack! Chess prodigy claims he was hacked after tirade against opponents

A collection of tweets slamming opponents was despatched from chess prodigy Anish Giri's Twitter account earlier than claiming he was hacked.
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A Dutch chess prodigy claims he was hacked on Twitter after his account attacked different grandmasters and shared vulgar DMs Saturday evening.

Anish Giri, 31, had tweeted a collection of accusations in opposition to fellow countryman Jorden van Foreest, World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Carlsen’s coach Peter Heine Nielsen, and Russian prodigy Daniil Dubov.

“Jorden offers my Candidates prep to Mangus and now expects me take him again. @PHChess sleeps with 17 12 months previous Thai prostitutes. Dubov is a cocaine addict. Magnus is an alcoholic who goes to strip golf equipment each different day. Ought to I expose extra,” a since deleted tweet learn, in keeping with display photographs seen by The Publish.

The account belonging to Giri, who's ranked the seventh-best participant on this planet and was awarded the title of grandmaster when he was solely 14, additionally printed a screenshot of a crude DM from former US champ Hikaru Nakamura.

“If he doesn’t settle for the provide then f–okay that n—a,” the purported message learn.

Early Sunday morning the blue-checked @anishgiri tweeted “Hacked.,” main a few of his followers to demand extra info as Anish trended on the social media platform.

“The screenshots are gonna want a greater clarification than that,” one wrote.

“nah man sorry this isnt sufficient. you gotta make clear the take care of the dms and the ph accusation,” one other mentioned.

Anish Giri, the seventh-ranked chess participant on this planet, is going through backlash throughout social media for the posts.

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Others got here to the protection of the chess wiz, believing his declare that he was a pawn of cyberbullies.

“Keep in mind it’s Actually not laborious to faux messages. Occurs on a regular basis,” one defender mentioned.

“Learn up on laptop safety NOW. Reset ALL your passwords on all of your accounts NOW, ranging from excessive safety ones. Additionally wouldn’t damage to do a reinstall of the OS in your PC. Use complicated passwords,” suggested one other.