Humiliation for Obama as official White House Instagram page is HACKED

Published: 04:38, 1 June 2026 | Updated: 04:58, 1 June 2026 The official account for the Obama White House was hacked on Sunday and spammed with bizarre memes. The unidentified hacker added some pictures to the @obamawhitehouse account, including an AI-generated image that claimed the White House was now under Shiite control, according to TMZ. He also added some posts to the page's Instagram Stories.  But a representative for Meta - the parent company of Instagram - said the account has now been secured and all of the unauthorized content removed. The account had previously last been updated in 2017, when President Donald Trump took office for his first term. However, it was previously hacked in July 2020 in an attack that also targeted the accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.  The accounts for Gates and Musk promised Bitcoin payments to followers.  The FBI told NBC News at the time it was aware of a 'security incident involving several Twitter accounts, belonging to high-profile individuals' and acknowledged that the hackers seemed to want to 'perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud.'  The official page for the Obama White House was hacked on Sunday The unidentified hacker added some pictures to the @obamawhitehouse account, including an AI-generated image that claimed the White House was now under Shiite control The hacker also shared posts to the official account's Instagram Stories 'We advise the public not to fall victim to this scam by sending cryptocurrency or money in relation to this incident,' the bureau said.  The hacker in that case, Joseph James O'Connor, of the UK, pleaded guilty in the US to charges including computer intrusion, wire fraud and extortion and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2023.  He had been arrested in Spain in 2021 and was extradited to the US after Spain's High Court ruled that America was the best place to prosecute him because the evidence and the victims were there. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service then announced last year it had obtained a civil recovery order to seize 42 Bitcoin and other crypto assets linked to the scam, equating to $5.4 million.  This is a breaking news story and will be updated.  No comments have so far been submitted. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, or debate this issue live on our message boards. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.