Sean Hannity's Twitter Page Vanishes For Hours

Fox News host Sean Hannity's Twitter account was compromised and was unavailable for a few hours on Saturday, inspiring speculation by his conservative followers that a government cabal they call the "deep state" or a rogue employee could be to blame. reports  the Associated Press.

After Hannity's verified Twitter account posted a message that simply and cryptically said "Form Submission 1649," visitors said they were getting a "Sorry, that page doesn't exist" error message.

By the time Hannity's account was back up later in the morning, speculation was rampant about the mysterious disappearance.

I’m baaaccckk... a lot to say- Thanks for the support all you deplorable, irredeemables. Can’t get rid of me that easy. Too much work to do exposing #deepstategate---Monday’s a big day…tick tock.

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 28, 2018

I just want to take a moment and thank my twitter friends for all of your support in the last 22 hours. It means more to me than you will ever know. God bless you all. Thank you Sean

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 28, 2018

Fox News referred questions to Twitter, which confirmed the account had been compromised.

"While we normally do not discuss individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons, we have permission from the account owner to confirm that account was briefly compromised," Twitter said by email, without elaborating.

Some Hannity followers blamed shadowy "deep state" government figures looking to take down Hannity, who's a big supporter of President Donald Trump.

In recent months, a string of Twitter accounts belonging to prominent conservative journalists and commentators have been compromised, including: Former Fox News hosts Greta Van Susteran and Eric Bolling, reporter Sara Carter and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke.

According to BuzzFeed, Turkish hackers are behind the series of hacks.