James Corden Has Hilarious Response to Person Who Hacked His Twitter

James Corden recently revealed he had a very eventful summer break, including having his Twitter account hacked.

The outgoing The Late Late Show host shared with his audience the moment the hacker tried to blackmail him for money.

"My Twitter got hacked over the summer," Corden said during Tuesday night's episode.

"I got this message from someone who works at Twitter saying there's been sensitive information on your account. I hadn't posted in a year, so I was like, 'OK, I should probably look at that'," Corden said.

"So I wrote back, 'is this legit?' and they were like 'yeah, yeah you've just got to fill in this form'," Corden added.

"I went to Google to check if this is what happens, and this is what happens, and that's the form, that's what it looks like. So I go sure, put my information in, and then bang, gone," Corden said. "Then I got a WhatsApp message from somebody saying, 'I've frozen your Twitter. You can buy your account back for $1,000.' And I just put, 'Bro, you can keep it.'"

The live audience laughed at Corden's hilarious response and the clip posted to Twitter has been viewed thousands of times.

It was revealed this week that a whistleblower accused Twitter of major security flaws.

The whistleblower disclosure previously sent to Congress by an individual identified as Peiter "Mudge" Zatko outlined include some flaws, including Twitter's failure to delete some users' personal data after they delete their accounts and that the social media giant is unable to accurately determine the number of bots, or fake accounts on Twitter.

Zatko reportedly served as security lead on Twitter's senior executive team until January 2022, according to reports from CNN and The Washington Post.

Zatko's report also detailed an incident in which Twitter was notified by the U.S. government that one of its employees was acting as an agent for foreign governments.

In 2010, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called on Twitter to fix some of its issues with users' personal information. However, according to CNN, Zatko said that Twitter never complied with the FTC's request.

In a statement sent to CNN, a spokesperson for Twitter disputed many of Zatko's claims and said that he "was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance."

"What we've seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context," The statement continued. "Mr. Zatko's allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be."

He is being by helped non-profit legal association Whistleblower Aid which said in a statement: "Following a very public hack of Twitter by teenagers in July 2020, former CEO Jack Dorsey personally recruited Mudge to help address Twitter's security problems and technological debt.

"Beginning in December 2021, Mudge began the lawful disclosure process and exhausted internal channels before contacting law enforcement agencies. Mudge was terminated by Twitter in January 2022."

Newsweek reached out to Twitter for further comment.