{"id":558716,"date":"2026-03-23T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558716\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:49:15","slug":"tom-elliott-hacked-on-x-during-hip-surgery-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558716\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Elliott hacked on X during hip surgery recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster Tom Elliott says he\u2019ll look to create a fresh start after being hacked on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>As he recovers from hip replacement surgery, the <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/pub-baron-arthur-laundy-unveils-tapt-media-as-new-name-for-3aw-and-2gb-owner\/news-story\/498cd54149f1b207ba088e50c7d6f6df\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"498cd54149f1b207ba088e50c7d6f6df\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3AW <\/a>mornings host was targeted by hackers with two posts on the platform, formerly Twitter, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the posts, written in all capital letters, referred to his recent hospital stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m back, It\u2019s been a long and difficult journey in hospital, and even when all hope seemed lost, God gave me a second chance at life. I truly missed you all and deeply appreciate your prayers and support. Tom Elliott is back stronger than ever!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other post to his more than 20,000 followers was a picture of US president Donald Trump and the late JFK with the caption \u201cGreat Maga\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/3aws-tom-elliott-under-fire-for-offensive-and-ignorant-comments-on-female-weight-loss\/news-story\/fdac3f111735b8771d268df7b1df7a0b\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"fdac3f111735b8771d268df7b1df7a0b\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elliott<\/a> said he was trying to get the issue rectified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t used Twitter or X for a long time,\u2019\u2019 he said, noting his last post was in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can guarantee it\u2019s not me. And I\u2019d never do things in all capitals. Rest assured I\u2019m working on it and might create a new account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott was off for part of last week and hopes to return to the microphone later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to, if I do it\u2019ll be from home as I don\u2019t have the mobility at the moment,\u2019\u2019 Elliott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster Tom Elliott says he\u2019ll look to create a fresh start after being hacked on social media platform&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2095,64,63,275769,447,109751,2490,134,222637,275772,275767,246047,14316,2041,2067,275768,275771,1314,53207,275773,45402,275770,225858,2614],"class_list":["post-558716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bans-presenters","tag-celebrities","tag-david-caird","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-replacement-surgery","tag-hip-surgery-recovery","tag-hospital-stay","tag-jackie-epstein","tag-jfk","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-picture-jay-town","tag-radio-host-faces","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-account","tag-social-media-hack","tag-social-media-platform","tag-tom-elliott","tag-tony-tardio","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}