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Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes at the final whistle after the FA Cup third round defeat to Brighton at Old Trafford, Manchester<\/p>\n
Bruno Fernandes\u2019 X account was hacked on Sunday evening, prompting Manchester United to warn supporters against engaging with any social media posts.<\/p>\n
The United captain is not a regular user of the social media platform, with his most recent post before tonight coming in October, celebrating his 300th appearance for the club.<\/p>\n
But a flurry of activity from 11pm (Irish time), starting with messages regarding cryptocurrency, saw his feed go into overdrive with a string of posts to its 4.5million followers.<\/p>\n
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Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes at the final whistle after the FA Cup third round defeat to Brighton at Old Trafford, Manchester<\/p>\n
News in 90 Seconds – January 12 2026<\/p>\n
After now-deleted posts about launching a cryptocurrency, the account added: \u201cThis is why I need to get paid more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Focus soon turned to United\u2019s struggles – having just hours earlier been knocked out of the FA Cup by Brighton – with hackers posting: \u201cMan Utd are in the dumps [at the moment].\u201d<\/p>\n
Another post read: \u201cLet\u2019s get rid of INEOS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further messages tagged adult star Bonnie Blue, and then the England cricket team, before YouTuber KSI and world darts champion Luke Littler were messaged.<\/p>\n
United then confirmed the hack, posting on their own feed: \u201cBruno Fernandes\u2019s X account has been hacked.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupporters should not engage with any of the posts or direct messages.\u201d<\/p>\n
In one of the final posts, the account posted an image of United\u2019s 7-0 loss to Liverpool from 2023.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time a high-profile football star has seen their X account hacked.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappe was the target of hackers in 2024, which saw his account post messages about Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Manchester United and Tottenham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes at the final whistle after the FA Cup third round defeat to Brighton at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,917,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-240882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}