Hennepin County Library's Twitter Account Restored

(Update) July 7, 1:40 p.m. — The library's Twitter account is back up and running. After temporarily switching over to a new account, staff has restored the library's previous page, @hclib. Still no word on who hacked the account, and how.

July 6 — Hennepin County Library's Twitter account was apparently hacked on Wednesday by an unknown party who proceeded to post a variety of "non-library" messages.

Ali Turner, division manager for communications and community engagement with the library system, said the account was broken into early in the day. Library officials became aware the account had been compromised when they saw messages popping up online that weren't from Hennepin County Libraries.

"We've taken the link down from our website and are in the process of working with Twitter," Turner said. "I don't know when it will be back up." 

Turner said this is the first time the library system's Twitter account has been hacked. Library officials have no information about who might have done the hacking or for what purpose, Turner said.