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After porn post, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston says X account was hacked

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Hours after an explicit pornographic post was shared with his more than 500,000 followers on X Thursday, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston said his account had been hacked.

“This account was compromised overnight. Any odd posts, links, or messages shared earlier were not legitimate and have been reported and deleted. Thank you for your patience,” the 72-year-old Houston wrote in a statement on the social media platformjust after 11 a.m. ET.

Despite stating that the post was deleted, the explicit video remained on the megachurch founder’s page as of 1 p.m. ET on Thursday. Several commenters on the statement pointed this out and urged him to delete the post.

“Brian, you need to delete it from your videos, it’s still there,” replied one commenter. As of 1:50 p.m. ET the post has been removed.

“Even if you were hacked, please take it down!! ‘But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.’ Matthew 18:6 Christians follow you,” another X user added.

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If he was legitimately hacked, what in the world are you doing to have your account hacked multiple times??? I have a hard time thinking his account was hacked and its most likely something he did as an accident and then claimed it was hacked. While we don't know for sure, the information the article provided about him just makes him look super suspect at best, guilty at worst.
 
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While his halo might have slipped over the last few years, I think he's probably telling the truth. His website would be fair game for hackers.

As to why the offensive post stayed up longer than expected, possibly that was necessary for the IT people to try to work out who hacked his account.

But I'm a complete amateur in cyber security, so I wouldn't know.

However I think he's telling the truth.
 
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Furthering on from my post above, I'm Australian but I've never been involved with Hillsong, which started in Australia. I attended what is now their Mount Gravatt Church a couple of times back in my protestant days before it became a Hillsong Church, and I have a Hillsong song book on my bookshelves, dating back to when their main songwriter was Geoff Bullock. That's as close as I've gone.

I don't use the song book as I am now Catholic and I don't know if the Catholic Church has a copyright agreement with Hillsong. Maybe they do via a CCLI copyright agreement but in any case I don't remember any of Hillsong's songs being sung.

Brian Houston and Geoff Bullock have both had personal issues, but they seem to be back on their feet.

I have no reason to disbelieve Brian Houston's statement that hackers are responsible. I think his account was hacked.
 
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On Tuesday (May 19), Brian Houston, founder and former global senior pastor of Hillsong Church, posted a video statement to social media offering an explanation for the explicit content that appeared on his X account last week.

Houston raised eyebrows after his official X account reposted an eight-minute long pornographic video. Houston has 543,000 followers on the platform.


In a subsequent post, Houston said that his account had been “compromised overnight” and that any “odd posts, links or messages shared earlier were not legitimate and have been reported and deleted.”

The explicit post remained live on Houston’s profile for some time after he posted his follow-up statement but was eventually removed.


This week in a follow-up video, Houston further addressed the explicit post and clarified what he meant by the word “compromised.”

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If he was legitimately hacked, what in the world are you doing to have your account hacked multiple times??? I have a hard time thinking his account was hacked and its most likely something he did as an accident and then claimed it was hacked. While we don't know for sure, the information the article provided about him just makes him look super suspect at best, guilty at worst.
I agree!
 
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