Facebook account of famous bunny Mr Bigglesworth hacked

Evil hackers have taken over control of a famous rabbit’s Facebook account, with his owner pleading with tech giant Meta to step up and combat hackers on the social media platform.

Mr Bigglesworth plush doll

Evil hackers have taken over control of a famous rabbit’s Facebook account, with his owner pleading with tech giant Meta to step up and combat hackers on the social media platform.

The Facebook account of celebrity bunny Mr Bigglesworth — which has more than 51,000 followers — has been turned into a monetising page and the hackers have begun receiving money from ad revenue.

Mr Bigglesworth, a social media star bunny, died in March last year after developing a heart condition, with hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide mourning the rex rabbit’s death.

Mr Bigglesworth’s Facebook account hacked. Picture: supplied.

Mr Bigglesworth owner Cassandra Hall told the Herald Sun she felt “devastated” hackers had control over her beloved late bunny’s Facebook account.

“It’s like he’s dead all over again. I’ve been crying all weekend … I’ve been violated — all of the seven years of memories, all the work we’ve done, everything has been impacted,” she said.

“They are destroying us … Our family’s suffering and we are really sad because it’s more than just a Facebook account — it means a lot to many people and children even though he is not alive any more.”

Since attacking the account, the hackers have renamed Mr Bigglesworth’s page “Furry Friends & Shenanigans” and have been posting stuff unrelated to the famous Rex bunny.

Mr Bigglesworth chooses charities online to donate merchandise proceedings. Picture: supplied.

Ms Hall believes nine different hackers are accessing her Facebook account with different emails, but said Meta had been unhelpful.

“I’ve been to Facebook and Meta and tried to get support, but there’s no support. No one gets back to you. There are no links. There are no forms to fill out. Unless you pay the $29.95 a month subscription, they won’t give you any help,” she said.

Ms Hall said she feared the hackers would “sell off” the account to other hackers, and all her memories of Mr Bigglesworth and the humongous online community Mr Bigglesworth cultivated would be gone forever.

“I’ve never wanted the page to be monetised because it was always just about Mr Bigglesworth’s memories, having fun, promoting anti-bullying and promoting rescues and donating to many rescues,” she said.

“I don’t know how far it’s going to go. It’s actually really scary because even my banking, my PayPal was linked to my Facebook, so now it’s all sort of been impacted.”

Ms Hall said it was high time the tech giant combated hacking.

“Facebook and Meta need to get on top of these hackers and protect us,” she said.

Meta was contacted for comment.