It appears that Scripps-owned WLEX (Lexington, Kentucky) has had its Twitter account hacked and it has been that way for a couple of days.

The Twitter handle was @Lex18News and has now been changed to @Lex16News and the account is now locked to private.

Some viewers are a bit confused as to what is going on?

We could not find anything on the station’s website as to what is going on. WLEX still has a link posted to their Twitter account, but the link takes you to the locked page of @Lex16News.

It appears that someone has gained access to the station’s website and while Twitter often is able to give control back to the proper owner fairly quickly in incidents like this, it hasn’t happened in this case.

Meanwhile, I’m guessing the social media team at WLEX is enjoying the break from having to post to Twitter.