Twitter has suspended an account of a journalist who wrote a piece of writing about Matt Walsh’s Twitter account being hacked.

Dell Cameron, a senior policy author at WIRED, had his account permanently suspended after he shared a piece of writing where he interviewed the hacker who infiltrated Matt Walsh’s account.

Proper after posting the article, Cameron’s account used to be suspended. withIn the rationalization, the social media platform said the reason was once the violation of Twitter rules.

It states namely for “violating our rules in opposition to distribution of hacked subject matter.”

Twitter’s explanation was once shared by using Steven Monacelli, an investigative reporter for The Texas Observer.

.@dellcam received this cause of the suspension after he said on the hack of Matt Walsh's Twitter account for @WIRED percenttwitter.com/y1Y9vARgNZ

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) April 19, 2023

Walsh’s Twitter was breached on Tuesday evening by means of a hacker who goes with the aid of the alias “Doomed,” in keeping with Cameron’s story on WIRED.

Walsh’s account gave the impression to be hacked when its feed started sharing out-of-persona tweets.

The tweets have been digs at his The Day by day Wire colleague Ben Shapiro that said: “You Know What You Did, You Are A Closeted Gay And Hide Behind Being Jewish.”

Other tweets were jabs at Joe Rogan that known as him a “pedophile” and accused British kickboxer Andrew Tate of kidnapping and raping girls in Romania

“I Can Confirm Andrew Tate Kidnapped And R*ped These Ladies,”

The hacker shared with Dell that he was in a position to get to Walsh’s account the usage of a SIM-swapping technique. It involves the hacker tricking a mobile supplier into switching the victim’s cell phone number to a SIM card he controls. “Doomed” claimed that an “insider” helped him with the hack.

The hacker used to be it seems that ready to achieve Walsh’s Google and Microsoft money owed along with the commentator’s W2 tax kind.

The hacker stated that he had no dangerous intentions.

“The intent was once to make funny tweets, as Matt Walsh likes to ‘trigger’ people,” stated “Doomed.” “We caused no financial harm, threatened any person, [nor] ruined the rest.” It used to be only, he says, “a couple of foolish words on social media.”

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