Starting Saturday afternoon, Schnapp’s Twitter account began publishing and retweeting a range of bizarre and inappropriate posts. Though he had not posted original tweets since July 16, on Saturday his account posted retweets from other accounts about him smoking and getting beat up.
The first suspicious tweet was sent at 6:27 p.m. E.T. with the message “Suicidal thoughts..” Some fans were alarmed at the tweet, but others quickly realized that this account was not under the actor’s control.
Using Schnapp’s account, the hacker or hackers tweeted messages tagging a few other Twitter accounts who may have been involved.
“just beat the f— out of @noah_schnapp and stole his phone #JOBS,” read one message that Schnapp retweeted.
After about 30 minutes, many of the tweets from Schnapp’s account had been deleted, including one message that had the N-word and others with sexual comments.
Schnapp, who has 12.5 million followers on TikTok, was coincidentally hacked one day after Addison Rae’s TikTok account was hacked. Rae, who is the second-most followed person on the video app, had her account taken over, temporarily disabled and finally restored a few hours later. Her account name was briefly changed to“joeandzak1” and her bio had the cryptic message “plugwalkjoe zak n crippin,” but no videos were posted to her account.
