Christina Pushaw solves the case after Nikki Fried campaign's statement about 'fishing attack' on Twitter account

Florida agriculture commissioner and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried’s Twitter account was apparently hacked Saturday afternoon:

HACKED: Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried’s Twitter account was hacked this evening. The account of the Democratic gubernatorial candidate now shows a bunch of NFT tweets. @NBC2 pic.twitter.com/5lTlcncTTt

— Gage Goulding – NBC2 (@GageGoulding) March 19, 2022

Uh oh…

Someone compromised @NikkiFried’s Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/dDF7FDDtcs

— Max (@MaxNordau) March 19, 2022

Nikki Fried got hacked and somehow her content… got better? https://t.co/ixpJSM08Wv

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1505326127186857984

I knew @NikkiFried fundraising numbers were bad, but didn’t think she would get this desperate https://t.co/O8RE6Vclvm pic.twitter.com/sBLg1Osibv

— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 19, 2022

Fried’s office put out a statement and called what happened a “fishing attack”:

“a fishing attack” pic.twitter.com/RN1MilbM5X

— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 20, 2022

Statement from Nikki Fried re her Twitter account being hacked. pic.twitter.com/w1UScHv7Q7

— Peter Schorsch 🇺🇦 (@PeterSchorschFL) March 19, 2022

Fortunately, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw quickly found the culprit:

case solved

it was a “fishing attack”

👀 pic.twitter.com/z8HoaksY9N

— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 20, 2022

LOL! Oh my…

Always, always, always proofread your statements before sending them out. Amateur mistake. https://t.co/H8DR7Ys8Qq

— Brittany (@bccover) March 20, 2022

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“Phishing”… “fishing”… whatever.

@keithedwards

— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) March 20, 2022

In fairness, Lincoln Project guys are good at hacking twitter accounts

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 20, 2022

OUCH.

pic.twitter.com/DaSBa5zrnR

— RH Bell 🇺🇸 (@BellBoca) March 20, 2022

social media team at nikki for gov https://t.co/UrnA3qLxl8 pic.twitter.com/HwsMHfO5Y4

— Guy Montag (@UpholdErudition) March 20, 2022

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