On the night of December 12,Anna Kendrick’s Twitter account began to produce a series of bizarre, occasionally racist tweets. This led to the widespread suspicion thather account had become compromised, as well as Kendrick’s name becoming a trending topic on social media that weekend.
The actor has since come back to the popular platform. Kendrick returned to Twitter to confirm thather account had indeed been hacked, and she’d since regained control of it. This included reverting her official website back to the promo site for her memoirScrappy Little Nobody,after the unnamed hacker(s) had changed it to “thug.org.”
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Before the hack, Kendrick was a sporadic Twitter user at best, with no activity on the account since a December 1 retweetin support of Elliot Page. She’d still managed to accumulate 7.2 million followers. Her announcement chose to focus on the upside, in that people she hadn’t talked to in years had reconnected specifically to tell her about the hack.
In a particularly bizarre crossover, Kendrick credits comedian, YouTube personality, and all-caps Twitter beast The Kid Mero with helping her regain control of her account. Talk of this becomingthe focus of a buddy comedyhas already begun throughout social media.
The tweets sent by Kendrick’s account during the hack, which have since been deleted, cited several names that are reportedly connected to a group called the Chuckling Squad. The same group claimed responsibility for the recent compromises of several other high-profile social media accounts, including actress Chloë Grace Moretz(The Addams Family, Kick-Ass)and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. One of the Chuckling Squad’s members was arrested in November of 2019 and the Squad’s been relatively quiet ever since, which suggests the Kendrick hacker has no actual connection to them. Sometimes a shout-out is just a shout-out.
Neither Kendrick nor her representation have disclosed details over how the hacker got access to the account in the first place. This might be a good time to look intochanging a few passwords, though, just to be on the safe side.
Kendrick’s most recent project was voicing Poppy in the Dreamworks animated projectTrolls World Tour, as well as a lead role in Cody Heller’s 10-episode seriesDummyon the late Quibi network. Her breakout performance was arguably the part of Jessica Stanley in three of theTwilightfilms, as well as Scott’s sister Stacey in 2010’sScott Pilgrim vs. The World, but she may be best known for fronting thePitch Perfecttrilogy.
She can next be seen in Joe Penna’sStowaway,playing an unusual non-comedic role as a member of a manned flight to Mars that discovers they’ve accidentally picked up an extra passenger. Netflix acquiredStowaway’sdistribution rights this month, and is reportedly eying a release for an unspecified point in 2021.
