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Buffalo Wild Wings 'Hacked,' Apologizes For 'Awful' Tweets
"I'm willing to settle out of court for an 80 piece order of Lemon Pepper wings, and some curly fries," said a victim of the racist tirade.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Buffalo Wild Wings started trending Friday night, but not because of their popular honey BBQ sauce or boneless chicken wings. At about 6:30 p.m. the Minneapolis-based restaurant chain's Twitter account began posting extremely vulgar and racist messages, horrifying millions online.
It took about 20 minutes for Buffalo Wild Wings staff to regain control of their account and delete the profane tweets.
Well, we were hacked. And it wasn’t funny. We apologize for the awful posts, which obviously did not come from us.
— Buffalo Wild Wings (@BWWings) 2 June 2018
One of the racist messages targeted American film producer Tariq Nasheed, who said "a bunch of white supremacists" continued to harass him well after the hack. "I'm willing to settle out of court for an 80 piece order of Lemon Pepper wings, and some curly fries," he said.
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We got you, and can do better than an 80-piece. DM us for details.
— Buffalo Wild Wings (@BWWings) 2 June 2018
As expected, the Internet had a field day with the chain's embarrassment, with no shortage of references to Roseanne Barr's "ambien tweeting" from earlier this week.
Who spiked Buffalo Wild Wings with Ambien?
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) 2 June 2018
Congrats to Roseanne on her new job as Buffalo Wild Wings’ social media director
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) 1 June 2018
Buffalo Wild Wings: Our Twitter account was hacked. We apologize. Me: Apology not accepted. Boycott! BWW: We'll give you free wings. Me: pic.twitter.com/FSvPdHqovb
— Travis Keys (@travkeys) 2 June 2018
Buffalo Wild Wings CEO when he found out the social media intern made the Twitter password "BuffaloWildWings" pic.twitter.com/ECcWNJK69g
— Leednetsov (@pc_leed) 1 June 2018
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Buffalo Wild Wings PR department right now: pic.twitter.com/pCLGwahFhN
— Bijou (@BijouDemi) 2 June 2018
Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Buffalo Wild Wings
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