Rolling Stones guitarist Keith's biography on his official account was changed to the sentence, "i hacked this ugly cancerous man hahahahahah (sic) follow @factor" and the hacker sent threats promising to bomb aircraft belonging to Malaysia Airlines and JetBlue Airways.
"I love killing people and blowing s**t up lmaooooo ima bomb @jetblue ahahaha (sic)," one read.
After regaining control of the social media feed on Sunday evening, representatives of the 72-year-old musician wrote, "Earlier today Keith’s Twitter account was hacked along with other verified accounts. The hateful tweets that were posted have been removed."
The account of Australian rockers Tame Impala was also compromised, with similar threats being issued from it towards American carrier JetBlue.
"I have 15 C4s in my bag and 12 pipebombs in my bag also. I'm going to blow up one of your planes in 30 minutes!! @Jetblue," one read.
Fellow indie rock band Bon Iver also suffered the indignity of losing control of their official Twitter feed, with their account sending out an offensive post about the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died aged 74 on Friday (03Jun16).
"I'm so glad Muhammad Ali ahahahahahah," the tweet read. The band's Twitter handle was also changed to @Ihavelegcancer by the hacker.
"Very sorry, everyone. We were hacked. Trying to fix the account now. Stand by," the group wrote on Twitter after the incident.
Earlier on Sunday (05Jun16) the Twitter account of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D was compromised, with a hacker falsely announcing the death of bandmember and actor Jack Black.
Reality TV star Kylie Jenner and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were also among victims of the series of attacks on stars' social media accounts over the weekend (04-05Jun16).
At the time of WENN going to press, it was not known if all the cyber-attacks were the work of a group or individuals.
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